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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An appeals court ruled Monday that two remaining antitrust claims brought against Microsoft by Novell could go forward, upholding an earlier court decision that dismissed the company's other four claims.
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A U.S. judge on Tuesday ruled that the  patent on the multibillion-dollar blood clot-preventing drug  Plavix is valid, handing a major victory to Bristol-Myers  Squibb Co.  and Sanofi-Aventis .
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A federal judge has ruled that some product-liability claims against Boston Scientific Corp.  over implantable heart defibrillators can proceed, rejecting the medical device maker's motions to dismiss them.
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Europeâs second-highest court today upheld a ruling that found the software company abused its dominance in computer operating systems.
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A United States appeals court upheld a finding of patent infringement against Research In Motion Ltd. yesterday, but struck down part of the ruling and sent it back to a lower court for further proceedings.
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SHANGHAI, China  - Pfizer Inc., the world's largest drug company, said Tuesday that it has filed an appeal in a Beijing court against a government decision rejecting the company's Chinese patent for its erectile dysfunction drug, Viagra.
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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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A California appeals court on Tuesday declined to reinstate a long-running case against the Walt Disney Co over royalties it paid for its popular Winnie the Pooh character.
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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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update A federal appeals court affirmed that Research In Motion has infringed on holding company NTP&#39;s patents but can continue selling its products in the United States pending a district court&#39;s decision.
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Backs Comptroller General in patent denial The High Court has backed the Comptroller General of Patents in refusing a company a patent for inventions which were computer programs. The ruling in the appeal followed the lead of a recent landmark case.â¦
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A drug manufacturer won Supreme Court review Friday of a $6.8 million verdict in the case of a woman whose arm had to be amputated after she was injected with one of its medications.
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A California appeals court on  Monday upheld the legality of a voter-approved program to sell  $3 billion in bonds to support stem cell research.
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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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The U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal on Monday by two advocacy groups arguing that dying patients have a constitutional right to access experimental drugs that have not received regulatory approval.