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Latest News in Life Sciences
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January 28, 2026
Biogen Can't Escape Amended Antitrust Suit Over MS Drug
Biogen Inc. must face health plans' claims that it bribed pharmacy benefit managers to stifle generics competition for its multiple sclerosis drug Tecfidera, after an Illinois federal judge found Wednesday that the plans' latest amended complaint in their consolidated antitrust litigation corrects her prior concerns with the pleadings.
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January 28, 2026
Teva Allowed New Mifepristone Claim But Not New Defendant
A California federal judge gave Teva permission to update its antitrust suit accusing Corcept Therapeutics of using patent system abuse, bribes and exclusive dealing to block generic competition to its cortisol disorder treatment while refusing to let Teva add another specialty pharmacy as a defendant.
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January 28, 2026
Tax Court Rejects Aventis' Securitizing Debt Assets
Pharmaceutical giant Aventis Inc. is ineligible for a favorable tax treatment on its securitization of financial assets, the U.S. Tax Court ruled Wednesday, finding the company did not comply with statutory requirements and failed to show it was not the beneficial owner of the assets.
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January 28, 2026
After Fed. Circ. Remand, PTAB Again Backs Bausch Patent
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has found again that MSN Laboratories failed to show that a drug patent owned by Bausch Health Ireland Ltd. was invalid, after the Federal Circuit told the board to take another look last year.
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January 28, 2026
New Squires Order Allows 4 Patent Reviews, Denies 25 Others
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires instituted four America Invents Act patent challenges while denying 25 others in his most recent summary decision.
Areas of Coverage
- AGENCIES
- U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
- U.S. Food and Drug Administration
- U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
- U.S. International Trade Commission
- POLICY & REGULATION
- Affordable Care Act
- Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act
- Antitrust and consumer protection controls
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- State and international life sciences legislation and regulation
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- Drug safety actions
- Pay-for-delay investigations
- Merger reviews
- LITIGATION
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- Abbreviated New Drug Application litigation
- Section 301 cases
- Product safety suits over drugs and medical devices, including off-label marketing and failure-to-warn claims
- Consumer litigation and class actions
- Fraud and compliance suits
- Antitrust disputes
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- Shareholder and corporate governance disputes
- Bankruptcy proceedings
- TRANSACTIONS
- Mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures
- Share buybacks and stock splits
- Private equity deals
- Patent-licensing agreements
- PROFILES
- Personnel moves
- Profiles of life sciences practice groups
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- Judges and court staff across the U.S.
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