A panel of experts put together by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration looked at the safety concerns surrounding the more than $5 billion drug-coated stent industry. These so-called drug-eluting stents are small metal tubes implanted into blood vessels to help prop up clogged heart arteries after they have been cleared. By coating the stents […]

The Blawg Review Editor sent me a tip about Light Cafés in Stockholm, which now offer Swedes the chance to take in a little sun with their morning coffee. Since Stockholm only receives five hours of light a day in winter, patrons at the Iglo Ljuscafé sip their morning brew while soaking in artificial sun […]

Apotex’s appeal of a grant of a preliminary injunction by the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York in favor of Sanofi-Synthelabo was smacked down by the CAFC. See Sanofi-Synthelabo et al. v. Apotex (06-1613). Sanofi markets Plavix®, a platelet aggregation inhibiting agent used to reduce thrombotic events such as heart […]

Colin Samuels brings us Blawg Review #86 at Infamy or Praise based upon the second cantica of Dante’s Divine Comedy, Purgatorio, and is thus a sequel of sorts to last December’s Inferno-themed edition organized around the Nine Circles of Hell from Dante’s Inferno. Samuels’ Infamy or Praise review provides an overview of law blawgs within […]

Every now and then I have an application that is subject to a secrecy order by the government that restricts disclosure of the invention and prevents the publishing or granting of a patent. I noticed that a current application being held up really doesn’t seem to contain sensitive information but the application may have triggered […]

A month ago, Robert Ambrogi’s LawSites ran a LawSites Poll: Your Top Legal Blog. Deemed “an experiment”, Robert hopes to use the poll to deal with the flood of law blogs. Robert wanted to know: What is the one law-related blog you feel you must read as regularly as possible? No fair naming your own. […]

I don’t know what it is about the recent uptick in conflict issues but now the Washington Post has reported that federal prosecutors have charged a senior scientist at the National Institutes of Health with conflict of interest for taking fees from a drug company that was involved with his government research. Dr. P. Trey […]

I received the following note from a reader asking if anyone would have suggestions on the following fact pattern: I am preparing a petition to revive a US application that has gone abandoned, we think unintentionally. There are a number of case specific issues, which are not expressly provided for in MPEP 711.03. In particular, […]