Life Sciences

  • October 23, 2025

    RingConn Settles With Oura After ITC Import Ban

    Ouraring Inc. has inked a deal allowing RingConn to keep its smart rings on the U.S. market following the U.S. International Trade Commission's decision to block Ultrahuman and RingConn from importing products it held infringed a wearable computing device patent.

  • October 23, 2025

    Freshly Launched Legal Org. Plans To Protect Abortion Docs

    A new legal group launched this week aims to support telehealth doctors providing abortion pills and reproductive care, and to further strengthen shield laws protecting those providers from out-of-state prosecutions. 

  • October 23, 2025

    Bayer Wants Full Fed. Circ. Scrutiny Of Axed Xarelto Claims

    Bayer Pharma Aktiengesellschaft is urging the full Federal Circuit to scrutinize a decision that declined to revive claims in a patent covering its blockbuster blood thinner, saying Wednesday that a panel wrongly concluded the term "clinically proven effective" couldn't count toward the claims' patentability.

  • October 23, 2025

    SEC Being Misled In CBD License Fight, CEO Claims

    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has "unwittingly" taken the side of a former partner with a terminated licensing agreement, a pharmaceutical CEO told a California federal court this week, asking for summary judgment on the SEC's core claims that he defrauded investors.

  • October 23, 2025

    Ex-Exec Accused Of Stealing IVF Co.'s Trade Secrets

    The co-founder of a Garden State genetic testing company abruptly quit, deleted all the data on his company laptop — including the only copy of some materials — then took the trade secrets to help a competitor, according to a lawsuit filed in New Jersey federal court.

  • October 23, 2025

    Eli Lilly Says Pharmacy Mass-Producing Weight Loss Drug

    Drugmaker Eli Lilly is suing a compounding pharmacy in Texas federal court, alleging the pharmacy ripped off its lucrative weight loss drug, began mass-producing it, and made as much as $2 million per month last year from its misdeeds.

  • October 23, 2025

    Avadel, Jazz Settle Sleep Disorder Drug Claims

    Avadel Pharmaceuticals has announced it reached a global settlement with Irish rival Jazz Pharmaceuticals to dismiss their lawsuits against each other that alleged patent and antitrust violations related to sleep disorder drug Lumryz.

  • October 23, 2025

    Del. Startup Accuses Ex-CEO In Chancery Of Stock Scheme

    A Delaware pharmaceutical startup has sued its former CEO in the Delaware Chancery Court, accusing him of secretly enriching himself through unauthorized stock issuances and deceptive loans.

  • October 23, 2025

    Feds, Ex-Magellan CEO Still Split Over Sentencing Factors

    Lawyers for a former Magellan Diagnostics CEO and the government are still at odds over whether a judge should consider the product mislabeling charge she pled guilty to in March to be tantamount to fraud — an assertion the defense says is an attempt by prosecutors to "shoehorn" in allegations never put to proof.

  • October 23, 2025

    Buyers Sue Colgate Over Lead Found In Kids' Toothpaste

    A proposed class of buyers is suing Colgate-Palmolive Co. in California federal court, alleging that it sold children's toothpaste that contains substantial amounts of lead without warning consumers.

  • October 23, 2025

    5th Circ. Revives Religious Bias Suit Over DOD Vaccine Policy

    The Fifth Circuit breathed new life into a proposed class action claiming the U.S. Department of Defense unlawfully slow-walked civilian employees' requests for religious exemptions from its COVID-19 vaccination directive, saying the mandate getting rescinded didn't nullify the lawsuit.

  • October 22, 2025

    Novo Nordisk Paid Patient Benefits, Not Bribes, Jury Hears

    Novo Nordisk Inc. paid benefits to patients with a rare form of hemophilia and not bribes as a group of plaintiffs in an alleged kickback scheme have claimed, a Washington jury was told Wednesday during emotional testimony on the third day of a multiweek trial.

  • October 22, 2025

    Judge Voids HHS Rule Banning Gender Identity Discrimination

    A Mississippi federal judge on Wednesday struck down a Biden-era U.S. Department of Health and Human Services rule that protected gender-affirming care under the Affordable Care Act, ruling that federal officials exceeded their authority by broadening the definition of sex discrimination to cover gender identity.

  • October 22, 2025

    Bristol-Myers $450M Payment Dispute Heads To Arbitration

    A judge sitting for Delaware's Court of Chancery has sent to arbitration allegations from shareholders of a small biotechnology company acquired by Bristol-Myers Squibb that the pharmaceutical giant used trickery to avoid paying up to $450 million in milestone payments.

  • October 22, 2025

    Judge Tosses Ingenus Suit Over Leukemia Treatment Patent

    A Delaware federal judge has agreed to throw out a lawsuit accusing Hetero Labs Ltd. of infringing a patent covering a treatment for lymphoma and leukemia, pointing out that an Illinois federal court in a separate case already found the patent to be invalid.

  • October 22, 2025

    Purdue Fights Baltimore Objection Ahead Of Ch. 11 Plan Trial

    Purdue Pharma LP told a New York bankruptcy judge on Wednesday it is concerned a recent objection to its Chapter 11 plan brought by the city of Baltimore could disrupt its case just weeks before the drugmaker is set to begin trial on a deal that creditors overwhelmingly support.

  • October 22, 2025

    Latham Adds BCLP Environmental Atty In SF Bay Area

    Latham & Watkins LLP is expanding its environmental team, announcing Wednesday it is bringing in a Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP expert on chemicals, especially "forever chemicals," as a partner in its San Francisco Bay Area offices.

  • October 22, 2025

    Unions Pursue More Protection For Federal Workers In Shutdown

    Eight unions asked a California federal judge to step up the level of protection she provided to thousands of federal workers' jobs during the government shutdown, urging her to expand the number of jobs she's protecting and turn a temporary restraining order into a preliminary injunction.

  • October 22, 2025

    Trump Flouted Clean Air Act With Rule Delay, Enviro Orgs. Say

    President Donald Trump violated the Clean Air Act when he delayed deadlines to comply with air pollution standards for companies in the chemical manufacturing industry, green groups alleged in Washington federal court Wednesday.

  • October 22, 2025

    5 Firms Guide $2.1B Alkermes-Avadel Sleep Medicine Deal

    Dublin-based Alkermes PLC has agreed to buy Avadel Pharmaceuticals PLC, a fellow Irish drugmaker focused on sleep medicine, in an all-cash deal valuing Avadel at about $2.1 billion, the companies said on Wednesday. 

  • October 22, 2025

    NC Biz Court Bulletin: COVID Coverage, A Suspect Signature

    The North Carolina Business Court has rounded the corner into fall with insurance disputes over COVID-19 coverage at a chain of outlet malls and the theft of over $900,000 in legal THC reportedly stolen from a warehouse in the Southwest.

  • October 22, 2025

    Naked Whey Sued Over Reports Of Lead In Protein Powder

    A proposed class of consumers is suing Naked Whey Inc. in California federal court, alleging that it knew its products contained, or risked containing, dangerous heavy metals like lead, but advertised them as clean, tested and safe protein supplements.

  • October 21, 2025

    Novo Nordisk Says Officials Not Qualified To Doubt Drug Bills

    Attorneys for Novo Nordisk Inc. on Tuesday sought to undercut witness testimony that Medicaid claims in Washington state for the company's hemophilia drug NovoSeven were shockingly high, leading one state auditor to suspect fraud.

  • October 21, 2025

    Patent Landscape Shifts As Squires Takes On Key PTAB Role

    The announcement that U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires will now make all decisions on whether to institute America Invents Act patent reviews is expected to reshape litigation, by leading fewer accused companies to file challenges, attorneys say.

  • October 21, 2025

    Judge Trims Pharma Co. Claims Against Ex-Employees

    A Florida federal judge has narrowed pharmaceutical company Lupin Inc.'s lawsuit accusing a rival of stealing trade secrets, freeing a pair of former employees of claims that they breached their fiduciary duties by allegedly swiping the company's confidential information.

Expert Analysis

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    Writing Novels Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Writing my debut novel taught me to appreciate the value of critique and to never give up, no matter how long or tedious the journey, providing me with valuable skills that I now emphasize in my practice, says Daniel Buzzetta at BakerHostetler.

  • SDNY OpenAI Order Clarifies Preservation Standards For AI

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    The Southern District of New York’s recent order in the OpenAI copyright infringement litigation, denying discovery of The New York Times' artificial intelligence technology use, clarifies that traditional preservation benchmarks apply to AI content, relieving organizations from using a “keep everything” approach, says Philip Favro at Favro Law.

  • What 9th Circ.'s Rosenwald Ruling Means For Class Actions

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    The Ninth Circuit's recent decision in Rosenwald v. Kimberly-Clark has important implications around the Class Action Fairness Act and traditional diversity jurisdiction — both for plaintiff-side and defense-side class action litigators — and deepens the circuit split concerning the use of judicial notice to establish diversity, says Grace Schmidt at DTO Law.

  • Trends In Post-Grant Practice Since USPTO Denial Guidance

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    Six months after the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office updated its guidance on discretionary denial of inter partes review and post-grant review, noteworthy trends in denial statistics have emerged, warranting a reassessment of strategies for parallel proceedings, says Andrew Ramos at Bayes.

  • USPTO Under Squires: A Look At The First Month

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    New U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires' opening acts — substantive and symbolic — signal a posture that is more welcoming to technological improvements and focused on rebalancing the office's gatekeeping role, say attorneys at Seyfarth.

  • Opinion

    Expert Reports Can't Replace Facts In Securities Fraud Cases

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    The Ninth Circuit's 2023 decision in Nvidia v. Ohman Fonder — and the U.S. Supreme Court's punt on the case in 2024 — could invite the meritless securities litigation the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act was designed to prevent by substituting expert opinions for facts to substantiate complaint assertions, say attorneys at A&O Shearman.

  • Opinion

    High Court, Not A Single Justice, Should Decide On Recusal

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    As public trust in the U.S. Supreme Court continues to decline, the court should adopt a collegial framework in which all justices decide questions of recusal together — a reform that respects both judicial independence and due process for litigants, say Michael Broyde at Emory University and Hayden Hall at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware.

  • Series

    Traveling Solo Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Traveling by myself has taught me to assess risk, understand tone and stay calm in high-pressure situations, which are not only useful life skills, but the foundation of how I support my clients, says Lacey Gutierrez at Group Five Legal.

  • Latest PTAB Moves Suggest A Subtle Recalibration

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    Recent decisions from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, as U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires transitions into his new role, offer new procedural and substantive tools for patent owners in procuring patent rights and enforcing them against would-be petitioners, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.

  • Opinion

    DOJ's Tracing Rule For Pandemic Loan Fraud Is Untenable

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    In conducting investigations related to COVID-19 relief fraud, the government's assertion that loan proceeds are nonfungible and had to have been segregated from other funds is unsupported by underlying legislation, precedent or the language establishing similar federal relief programs, say Sharon McCarthy, Jay Nanavati and Lasya Ravulapati at Kostelanetz.

  • Del. Ruling Reaffirms High Bar To Plead Minority Control

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    The Delaware Court of Chancery's recent decision in Witmer v. Armistice maintains Delaware's strict approach to control and provides increased predictability for minority investors in their investment and corporate governance decisions, says Elena Davis at Ropes & Gray.

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    Law School's Missed Lessons: Client Service

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    Law school teaches you how to interpret the law, but it doesn't teach you some of the key ways to keeping clients satisfied, lessons that I've learned in the most unexpected of places: a book on how to be a butler, says Gregory Ramos at Armstrong Teasdale.

  • How Occasional Activists Have Reshaped Proxy Fights

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    The sophistication and breadth of first-time activist engagement continue to shape corporate governance and strategic outcomes, as evidenced across corporate annual meetings this summer, meaning advisers should anticipate continued innovation in tactics, increased regulatory complexity, and a persistent focus on board accountability, say attorneys at MoFo.

  • What To Expect After FDA Warnings To GLP-1 Compounders

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    The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's recent warning letters to companies advertising compounded versions of GLP-1 medications raise questions not just about the enforcement outlook for marketing such products, but also about the future of drug compounding as a whole, say attorneys at Spencer Fane.

  • Where 4th And 9th Circ. Diverge On Trade Secret Timing

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    Recent Fourth and Ninth Circuit decisions have revealed a deepening circuit split over when plaintiffs must specifically define their alleged trade secrets, turning the early stages of trade secret litigation into a key battleground and elevating the importance of forum selection, say attorneys at Skadden.

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