Court Upholds Plavix Patent
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The decision removes a weighty uncertainty for Bristol-Myers Squibb and Sanofi-Aventis, the companies that market the product.
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CHICAGO -- Genentech Inc. lost a ruling on a patent that generates an estimated $300 million a year in royalties from rivals using the technology to make cancer and arthritis treatments.
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A jury in Texas has ruled that Boston Scientificâs drug-coated stents infringe a 1997 patent issued to a radiologist in Princeton, N.J., and has awarded the inventor $431 million in damages, Boston Scientific said Tuesday. The suit by the patent holder, Dr. Bruce N. Saffran, did not seek to halt sales of the stents.
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A U.S. court ruled on Thursday that  Dell Inc.  personal-organizer products did not infringe  a patent held by Alcatel-Lucent  , according to  a court document.
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A potent new anti-clotting drug from Eli  Lilly and Co proved as safe and effective as Sanofi-Aventis's  top-seller Plavix in a mid-stage clinical trial, researchers  said on Sunday.  Now Lilly and its partner Sankyo Co. Ltd. aim to demonstrate  clear superiority for their compound, known as prasugrel or  CS-747, in a much larger Phase III study involving up to 13,000  patients that is about to get under way.
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Biotech company ImClone Systems Inc.   IMCL.O said on Monday it had lost a patent decision made by   the U.S. District Court in Manhattan but intended to appeal   against it.
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A U.S. court has ruled that Dell Inc.   personal-organizer products did not infringe a patent  held by Alcatel-Lucent , according to a court  document filed on Thursday.
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Canada's Angiotech Pharmaceuticals Inc.  said on Monday that European regulators upheld a patent related to its drug-coated coronary stents.
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Microsoft Corp. is fighting a rejection by U.S. patent authorities of a patent for its FAT (file allocation table) file system, the company said Thursday. Meanwhile, it's celebrating a jury decision clearing it of patent infringement charges related to a feature in its Office software.
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A U.S. judge on Thursday granted a  request from Sanofi-Aventis  and Bristol-Myers Squibb  Co.  to block the sale of a generic form of their  top-selling Plavix blood thinner.
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WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court on Monday refused to consider a lawsuit alleging two pharmaceutical companies conspired to monopolize the market for a drug used to treat breast cancer.
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Bristol-Myers Squibb, the drug maker, has been cleared of securities law violations in connection with its botched Plavix patent settlement last year, the company said yesterday in a regulatory filing.
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A U.S. judge on Thursday granted a   request from Sanofi-Aventis and Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. to   block the sale of a generic form of their top-selling Plavix   blood thinner.
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A US appeal court has delivered a mixed ruling in a patent dispute between Research in Motion (RIM) and NTP. It upholding a decision that RIM had infringed on patents held by NTP, but cancelled an injunction
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WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court on Wednesday made it harder for consumers to sue manufacturers of federally approved medical devices.
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The Supreme Court handed a victory to Medtronic Inc on Wednesday, ruling that patients cannot sue medical-device manufacturers in state court over harm from a device that has approval from federal regulators.
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TORONTO/WASHINGTON  - A U.S. appeals court upheld  a patent infringement finding against BlackBerry e-mail device  maker Research In Motion Ltd. RIM.TO on Tuesday, but said  part of an earlier court ruling was flawed and sent the case  back to a lower court.