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Latest News in Life Sciences

  • September 24, 2026

    Jurisdictional Skepticism Puts Eli Lilly Appeal On Thin Ice

    Eli Lilly & Co.'s bid to unwind the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's refusal to classify a developing obesity treatment as a biological product appears to suffer from jurisdictional issues that might sink the company's appeal before its resolved, a Seventh Circuit judge signaled Thursday.

  • September 24, 2026

    ITC Takes On Patents, Trade Secrets In Large Decision Drop

    The U.S. International Trade Commission issued a flood of decisions this week on investigations in which imports are being evaluated to see if they infringe patents or misappropriate secrets, including three cases where it will reconsider holdings from administrative law judges.

  • September 24, 2026

    Squires Grants 5 Patent Review Bids, Rejects 6 Others

    In his latest round of decisions, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires has granted five petitions seeking reviews of patents, while turning down six other requests: three for discretionary reasons and three on the merits.

  • September 24, 2026

    FDA Nom Says Vaccines Safe, Won't Call IUDs Birth Control

    President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the U.S. Food and Drug Administration faced a Senate committee Thursday morning, where she affirmed the safety of vaccines when pressed but refused to directly contradict the president's false claim that the measles vaccine could be "quite lethal," and declined to affirm that IUDs are birth control and not abortifacients.

  • September 24, 2026

    Mylan Wants Del. Judge To Clear Wegovy Generic Drug

    Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc. has launched a lawsuit in Delaware federal court asking for a finding that its proposed generic version of Novo Nordisk Inc.'s blockbuster weight loss drug Wegovy does not infringe a patent, the latest salvo in a larger intellectual property fight over the GLP-1.

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