Patent Baristas

Biovail Corp., Canada’s largest publicly traded drugmaker, announced that it has settled with the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) regarding criminal allegations related to activities surrounding the 2003 commercial launch of Cardizem LA. The DOJ alleges that prior management’s actions in 2002 and 2003 in respect of the Cardizem LA clinical experience program, titled […]

Pfiscal Responsibility Pfizer announced that it has posted a list of U.S. medical, scientific and patient organization grants and charitable contributions made in the first quarter of this year, part of an ongoing drive throughout the company to increase transparency.  Of a total $9.97 million in grants and charitable contributions reported for the first quarter […]

See the biotechnology industry’s global reach next month. The BIO International Convention, hosted by the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO), will take place June 17-20, 2008 at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, Calif. Not a small, intimate affair with attendance at more than 22,000 in 2007, with representatives from 68 countries — international […]

The Palm Beach Post reported that the Scripps Research Institute has started issuing home loans — I guess they heard about the sub-prime bonanza and decided to jump on the bandwagon. Despite sounding like they’ve branched into some wildly diversified operations, the loans come as a bribe an incentive to get top scientists to move […]

Planet Eureka! In the category of solutions looking for problems to solve, Planet Eureka! is a new on-line marketplace for patents and other intellectual property rights by Eureka Ranch Technologies in Cincinnati, Ohio. Planet Eureka! Offers the USA National Innovation Marketplace as a way to bring together buyers and sellers of intellectual property. The Marketplace […]

A relatively new blog that’s getting some attention is the Green Patent Blog, a site “dedicated to discussion and analysis of intellectual property issues in clean technology.”  I have to admit, I’ve become a little skeptical of all the greenwashing that’s been going on in the world so I sometimes roll my eyes at any […]

Senate Reform Bill It appears that the Senate has pulled the plug on the Patent Reform Act (S. 1145) after Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid pulled the bill from the floor schedule. This is not a huge surprise given the interests against it. (via ars technica) A problematic area was a proposed change to the […]

K&L Gates is hosting a free lunchtime webinar featuring John J. Doll, U.S. Commissioner for Patents. U.S. patent law and practice is in its most dynamic period in recent memory. The landscape of patent laws and regulations is being modified by the Courts, Congress and the USPTO. Recent changes in case law, the Patent Reform […]