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  • August 15, 2025

    Stewart Issues Dozens More Discretionary Denial Decisions

    Acting U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director Coke Morgan Stewart denied numerous petitions challenging patents on discretionary grounds this week, while referring a smaller number of cases to the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.

  • August 15, 2025

    Life Spine Owes $9.5M In Implant Patent Suit, Jury Says

    A Delaware federal jury on Friday found that medical technology manufacturer Life Spine Inc. owes $9.5 million for infringing a Globus Medical Inc. patent on parts used to make expandable implant devices used in spinal fusion surgeries.

  • August 15, 2025

    How Big Pharma Has Responded To FTC Delisting Demands

    Looking at some statistics concerning how pharmaceutical companies have responded to the Federal Trade Commission's recent challenges to Orange Book listings raises several possible hypotheses about the FTC's strategy and effectiveness, say Ratib Ali and Celia Lu at Competition Dynamics.

  • August 15, 2025

    2nd Circ. Says Sun Life Can't Nix Worker's Benefits Challenge

    A split Second Circuit panel resuscitated a worker's suit challenging Sun Life's decision to deny her long-term disability benefits, ruling a release she signed with her employer didn't bar her from suing the insurance company because she was assured the agreement wouldn't block her ability to collect benefits.

  • August 15, 2025

    $111.25M Del. Settlement Proposed For Cencora Opioid Suits

    Executives and board members of Cencora Corp. — formerly AmerisourceBergen — have tentatively settled for $111.25 million a Delaware Court of Chancery stockholder derivative suit accusing them of taking a "devil may care" attitude toward the illegal distribution of opioid painkillers at the center of a nationwide addiction epidemic.

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