Court in Biological Technology

Isolagen, Inc. Announces Receipt of Interim Order from Bankruptcy Court Approving DIP Motion

EXTON, Pa., June 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Isolagen(TM), Inc. announced on June 16, 2009, that the Company and Isolagen Technologies, Inc., the Company's wholly owned subsidiary, each filed a voluntary petition for reorganization under chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code in the United States ...

Hospira Receives Favorable Court Decision on Eloxatin(R)

-- Has Tentative FDA Approval and Expects Final Approval Shortly -- LAKE FOREST, Ill., June 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Hospira, Inc. (NYSE: HSP ), the world leader in generic injectable pharmaceuticals, today announced that the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey has grante...

The Court Supports Bavarian Nordic's Decision to Start Patent Infringement Case Against Oxford BioMedica

KVISTGARD, Denmark, May 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Oxford Biomedica's second attempt to dismiss Bavarian Nordic's patent infringement suit in the United States has failed. Instead of denying infringement, Oxford Biomedica made yet another attempt to dismiss the suit arguing that it was premat...

Delaware Court Rules That Watson Does Not Infringe Patent Related to Generic Version of Concerta(R) and Declares Patent Invalid

CORONA, Calif., March 31 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NYSE: WPI ), a leading specialty pharmaceutical company, announced today that the United States District Court for the District of Delaware has ruled that Watson's generic version of Concerta (methylphenidate hydroc...

US District Court Enters Final Judgment in Favor of Smith & Nephew; Permanent Injunction Prohibits Arthrex Inc. From Selling Infringing Medical Devices

ANDOVER, Mass., Nov. 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- A US District Court judge in Oregon yesterday ruled that it granted an injunction in favor of Smith & Nephew's (NYSE: SNN ; LSE: SN) Endoscopy Division. This injunction prohibits privately held Arthrex Inc. of Naples, Fla., from manufacturin...

Occlutech Obtains Favourable Court Ruling in Patent Litigation in The Hague Against AGA Medical

JENA, Germany, October 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Occlutech GmbH, the leading European manufacturer of cardiac occlusion devices, today announced that it has won its litigation case in The Hague, Holland, against AGA Medical Inc. regarding non-infringement of the Dutch version of the European patent; ...

District Court Sides with Smith & Nephew; Rules that It will Issue Injunction that will Prohibit Arthrex Inc. from Selling Infringing Medical Devices

ANDOVER, Mass., Oct. 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- A US District Court judge in Oregon yesterday ruled that it will grant Smith & Nephew (NYSE: SNN; LSE: SN) Endoscopy's request for an injunction that will prohibit privately held Arthrex Inc. of Naples, Fla., from manufacturing or selling medic...

Boston Scientific Announces Court Decision

NATICK, Mass., Sept. 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE: BSX ) announced today a decision by the United States District Court in Delaware. The case involves a patent owned by Johnson & Johnson and Boston Scientific's NIR(R) stent product. In the decision, the Jud...

Concerned Shareholders of Biovail Pleased with Court Order for Biovail AGM

TORONTO, July 16 /PRNewswire/ - Eugene Melnyk and EM Holdings B.V. (The "Concerned Shareholders") said today that they were pleased with the decision of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice released this morning. The Court denied the application brought by Biovail Corporation and its CEO, Wil...

Concerned Shareholders of Biovail seek court order declaring Biovail AGM illegally convened;

Say Biovail seeing tide changing against management - with six million votes revoked - and no quoroum at meeting, secretly met to change rules TORONTO, June 25 /PRNewswire/ - The Concerned Shareholders of Biovail (TSE:BVF) said that their lawyers will be in court today and will seek a decla...

Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich Address Senate Special Committee on Aging, Calling for Urgent Action Against Alzheimer's Disease

The Alzheimer's Study Group Outlines a National Plan WASHINGTON, May 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich presented testimony to a special hearing of the U.S. Senate Special Committee...

Results of Court Meeting and Extraordinary General Meeting - Shareholders Approve Scheme of Arrangement and New Share Plans

BASINGSTOKE, England and PHILADELPHIA, May 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Shire plc (LSE: SHP, NASDAQ: SHPGY), the global specialty biopharmaceutical company, announces that ordinary shareholders approved the scheme of arrangement proposed in a circular to shareholders dated 16 April 2008 (the "C...

AstraZeneca Response to February 21, 2008 Ruling In Re: Alabama Medicaid Pharmaceutical AWP Litigation - cv2005-219 - Circuit Court of Montgomery, Alabama

WILMINGTON, Del., Feb. 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- AstraZeneca believes this lawsuit is legally and factually unfounded and we intend to appeal to the Alabama Supreme Court, if the trial court does not reject the jury's verdict. The case was based on the misleading premise that the Alabama St...

Delaware Court Denies Motion by SIGA Technologies Seeking to Dismiss PharmAthene's Legal Action in Breach of Contract Lawsuit Against SIGA

ANNAPOLIS, Md., Jan. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- PharmAthene, Inc., (Amex: PIP ) a biodefense company developing medical countermeasures against biological and chemical threats, announced that the Delaware Chancery Court today issued a ruling denying a motion by SIGA Technologies to dismiss ...

U.S. District Court Decision About Eisai's Legal Action Over Aricept ODT(R) ANDA Filing

TOKYO and WOODCLIFF LAKE, N.J., Dec. 27 /PRNewswire/ --- Eisai Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Tokyo, President and CEO: Haruo Naito) and Eisai Inc. (Headquarters: New Jersey, Chairman and CEO: Hajime Shimizu) (collectively "Eisai") filed a lawsuit in August 2006 against Mutual Pharmaceutical Co., In...

Forest Laboratories Announces Federal Appeals Court Upholds Lexapro(R) Patent Decision

NEW YORK, Sept. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Forest Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE: FRX ) and H. Lundbeck A/S of Denmark said today that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has affirmed a July 13, 2006 decision by the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware which determined th...

Hearing Scheduled in the Delaware Court of Chancery for August 27, 2007 to Establish the Valid Approval and Consummation of the Merger Between PharmAthene, Inc. and Healthcare Acquisition Corp.

ANNAPOLIS, Md., Aug. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- PharmAthene, Inc. (Amex: PIP ) announced today that a hearing has been scheduled by the Delaware Court of Chancery for 2:00 p.m. on Monday, August 27, 2007, in an action filed by PharmAthene stockholder Matthew P. Kinley pursuant to Section 22...

Wyeth's Motion to Overturn Punitive Damages Award Granted by Arkansas Court

- Appeal of Compensatory Award Will Now Proceed - MADISON, N.J., July 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Wyeth (NYSE: WYE ) confirmed today that its motion for judgment as a matter of law on the punitive damages award in the hormone therapy case of Donna Scroggin v. Wyeth, in the U.S. Dis...

Proceedings to Affirm Merger Between PharmAthene and Healthcare Acquisition Corp Initiated in Delaware Chancery Court

ANNAPOLIS, Md., Aug. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- PharmAthene, Inc., (Amex: PIP ) a biodefense company developing and commercializing medical countermeasures against biological and chemical threats, announced today that proceedings have been initiated with the Delaware Chancery Court to affir...

Wisconsin Supreme Court rules against Microsoft

Madison, Wis. - A class-action lawsuit on behalf of Wisconsin consumers against Microsoft can proceed under the state's antitrust laws, as a result of last week's state Supreme Court ruling . The suit, led by Milwaukee resident Gene Olstad, seeks a settlement fund for all Wisconsin consumers ...

Business liability law complaints grow with state Supreme Court decisions

Madison, Wis. - During a week in which President Bush announced his choice for a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court, it would have been easy to overlook the storm building around the next election for a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court. If you're a business owner worried about the next lawsuit, ...

Local software company takes Google to court over a patent

Madison, Wis. - For the second time in six years, a Madison software company has sued a technology giant, claiming patent infringement. This time Hyperphrase Technologies has filed suit against Google, Inc. , the Internet search engine company, for allegedly using technology that provides vie...

SGI receives court approval for bankruptcy motions

Chippewa Falls, Wis. - Silicon Graphics, Inc . has received interim approval from a New York bankruptcy court to use its $70 million financing facility to fund day-to-day business operations during a reorganization process. The approval came during a hearing in which the U.S. Bankruptcy Court...

Supreme Court decision in eBay case could affect value of patents

On Monday, May 15, 2006, the Supreme Court in eBay Inc. v. Mercexchange LLC, held that whether a patent owner who proves infringement should be granted an injunction must be determined under the standard four-factor test. Those factors are (1) irreparable injury; (2) inadequacy of remedies at law...

With patents, Wisconsin court gaining reputation as a "rocket docket"

Madison, Wis. - Patent law is esoteric territory, but a Madison court is taking some of the mystery out of it, and in the process it might be giving smaller drug companies a chance to defend their intellectual property against pharmaceutical Goliaths. The most recent example occurred last mont...

Wisconsin court affirms damages in Innogenetics, Abbott patent case

Madison, Wis. - The United States District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin has upheld a $7 million damage verdict against Abbott Laboratories . The Madison-based court affirmed the damage award to Innogenetics , a biopharmaceutical company based in Gent, Belgium, and rejected Abb...

Wisconsin court halts Abbott's sale of genotyping products

Madison, Wis. - The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin has entered a permanent injunction against Abbott Laboratories , preventing the pharmaceutical company from further sales or use of products or components that infringe on a genotyping patent held by Innogenetics , ...

Supreme Court ruling seen as blow to WARF stem cell patents

Madison, Wis . - Has the United States Supreme Court strengthened the case against stem cell patents held by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation? The answer is yes, according to the California consumer watchdog organization that is challenging the patents, but that's not necessarily a co...

High court sends message on patent obviousness

One of the primary burdens facing a patent applicant before the United States Patent and Trademark Office is the requirement that the claimed invention is not obvious under 35 U.S.C. 103. Similarly, obviousness is a typical defense raised in patent infringement cases. Yet, overcoming obviousne...

Supreme Court limits foreign reach of U.S. patents

Over the past year, the United States Supreme Court has issued several rulings that have eroded the strength and reach of United States patents. In Microsoft Corp. v. AT&T , the Supreme Court delivered another blow by limiting their reach abroad and making clear that United States patent law...

Wisconsin Supreme Court to hear Menasha software case

Madison, Wis . - Did the state of Wisconsin improperly apply its five percent sales tax to a software package installed by Menasha Corp. ? The Wisconsin Supreme Court will decide that question after agreeing last week to hear the case, and there is an estimated $350 million at stake for busi...

CIOs could keep companies out of hot water in court

Madison, Wis. CIOs need to check whether they're adequately handling security and regulatory challenges far beyond passwords and firewalls including insider theft, lost data, and poor document retention, said panelists at the Fusion2006 CEO-CIO Symposium on Thursday. Morgan Stanley's $1.4 ...

Software tax dispute could go the Supreme Court

Madison, Wis. - Some of the state's largest corporations could be big financial winners following the latest plot twist in the dispute over how Wisconsin law defines modified software. The state Court of Appeals has ruled that the state Department of Revenue has been incorrectly taxing bus...

CuraGen Reports Second Quarter 2009 Financial Results

... Celldex Therapeutics, Inc. The settlement is subject to documentation and court approval. During the three and six month periods ended June 30, 2009... Celldex Therapeutics, Inc. The settlement is subject to documentation and court approval. "While we continue to deny any wrongdoing or liability with resp...

U.S. Federal Trade Commission to Challenge Thoratec's Proposed Acquisition of HeartWare International

... announced today that the United States Federal Trade Commission ("FTC") has informed them that the FTC will file a complaint in U.S. Federal District court to challenge Thoratec's proposed acquisition of HeartWare International. Thoratec and HeartWare International are disappointed with the FTC's d...

Sanofi-aventis Announces Second Quarter 2009 Results

...in((R)) were down 5.7% at euro 697 million. In June 2009, the U.S. District court for the District of New Jersey ruled against sanofi-aventis by granting sum...nt litigation. Sanofi-aventis has appealed this decision, and the Appellate court issued an order temporarily staying the district court's judgment. As of th...

YM BIOSCIENCES' SUBSIDIARY RESOLVES PROPOSED ARBITRATION WITH ONCOSCIENCE AG

...mpanies in a cooperative effort. CIMYM BioSciences has formally notified Oncoscience that it no longer intends to submit its application to the London court of International Arbitration for resolution of the matters previously in dispute. "We are pleased that CIMYM BioSciences and Oncoscience have resolv...

Victhom announces completion of joint venture agreement with Otto Bock for Neurobionix activities

... of shareholders, and by 97% of the debenture holders at the debenture holders' meeting held earlier that day. On June 17, 2009, the Quebec Superior court issued its final order approving the implementation of the plan of arrangement providing inter alia for the consolidation of Victhom's common shares o...

TechNet Urges Swift U.S. Senate Approval of FCC Nominees Julius Genachowski and Robert McDowell

...man of the FCC and was a law clerk to U.S. Supreme court Justice David Souter, U.S. Supreme court Justice William J. Brennan, Jr., and Chief Judge Abner Mikva of the U.S. court of Appeals. He also worked in Congress on the staf...

Haemonetics Receives Favorable Ruling in Patent Lawsuit against Competitive Technology

...SE: HAE ) announced today that the U.S. District court for the District of Massachusetts has made a rulin...mages for past infringement. On June 2, 2009, the court further ruled that, in addition to paying the dama...hen the injunction takes effect. In addition, the court awarded pre-judgment interest at 5% on the unpaid ...