Food, Drugs, Healthcare, Life Sciences

In Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co. v. Sandoz, Inc., the Federal Circuit upheld the district court’s determination that the claims at issue were neither obvious nor invalid under the doctrine of obviousness-type double patenting based on a "lead compound" approach to the obviousness determinations.

After the Supreme Court decided that the personalized medicine method claims at issue in Mayo Collaborative Services v. Prometheus Laboratories, Inc. did not satisfy the patent eligibility requirements of 35 USC § 101.

GlaxoSmithKline and Genentech have settled a U.S. lawsuit related to Genentech's Cabilly II (US 6,331,415) and Cabilly III (US 7,923,221) patents.

Reconciliation markups in the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce, as well as the House Committee on Ways and Means...

On April 11, 2025, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ("CMS") published a Request for Information ("RFI") requesting the public provide feedback...

We've written recently about the process that states are undertaking to begin to wind down the Medicaid enrollment expansion that was necessitated by the enactment...

In a judgment on 1 May 2025, the Court of Appeal increased the FRAND licence fee payable by Apple to Optis (a so-called "non-practicing entity" who monetise IP rights) relating to the 4G standard...

In this episode, hosts Amy Mudge and Daniel Kaufman discuss various health-related cases involving medical devices and FTC rulings. They delve into notable cases such as the QRay bracelet, which claimed pain relief through ionization, and the ViaTek mosquito shield band, which purported to repel mosquitoes.

A circuit split over the causation standard under the federal Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS) could grow wider after a recent Northern District of Illinois (NDIL) decision.

Environmental and Regulatory Compliance Partner Sherry Jackman participated in the L.A. Times Studios' Food & Beverage Industry Roundtable. Sherry was one of three leading food and beverage industry experts...

Over the past few weeks, we have been closely following the Trump administration's restructuring of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the major reduction in the department's workforce...

Agroup of consumers sued Burger King, alleging that photos of the burgers in the company's advertising misled them...