The group blog over at Point of Law, with an impressive list of contributors, teamed up to cover Blawg Review #56: Sex, Virtual Weddings, and Baseball. Point ‘o Law is sponsored by the Center for Legal Policy at the Manhattan Institute and Liability Project at the American Enterprise Institute. We were only interested in the […]

In Breckenridge Pharmaceutical, Inc. v. Metabolite Laboratories, Inc., the Federal Circuit summarized the standard for personal jurisdiction in patent cases. Metabolite holds patents for a method of controlling hyperhomocysteinemia, a condition involving elevated serum metabolite levels, which is an emerging risk factor for heart and vascular disease, and its principal business involves licensing its patents […]

Eli Lilly and Company today got hammered by a jury in the U.S. District Court of Massachusetts in Boston in a decision in the case of Ariad Pharmaceuticals et al. v. Eli Lilly and Company. The Jury handed down a verdict that U.S. Patent No. 6,410,516, owned by Harvard, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and […]

On April 30, 2006 Judge Richard W. Roberts of U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, in his memorandum opinion, has ruled in the favor of Ranbaxy & Ivax (acquired by Teva) by granting them summary judgment and contending that the FDA has acted contrary to the clear intent of Congress in its decision […]