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February 28, 2025
Dartmouth Wants Fed. Circ. To Ax Fees After Vitamin IP Loss
Dartmouth College is appealing a Delaware federal court's $9.1 million fee award after losing a fight over milk vitamins patented by a biochemist at the school, telling the Federal Circuit that there is no reason it should have presumed that the patents it asserted were "worthless."
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February 28, 2025
Aimmune Shareholders' $27.5M Deal Over Sale To Nestle OK'd
Aimmune Therapeutics Inc. stockholders won preliminary approval in California federal court on Friday for a $27.5 million settlement of their securities fraud class action alleging that Aimmune was falsely undervalued before its merger with Nestlé Health Science SA.
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February 28, 2025
Bioventus Hit With Del. Derivative Suit After NC Class Deal
A Bioventus Inc. stockholder sued 15 current and former directors and officers of the medical device venture in Delaware's Court of Chancery to recover for the company tens of millions in losses tied to alleged mismanagement and corporate duty failures over a two year period.
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February 28, 2025
NFL Alums Say Vaccine Fund Misuse Claims Should Fail
The National Football League's largest alumni organization has hit back at a lawsuit that accused it of forcing a biotechnology company out of a COVID-19 vaccine outreach program, arguing Thursday that no underlying contract exists on which to stake the suit.
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February 28, 2025
China Signals Retaliation Following Extra 10% US Tariff
The Chinese government said Friday it will pursue additional "countermeasures" if President Donald Trump's administration follows through on plans to impose an extra 10% tariff on Chinese goods.
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February 28, 2025
Taxation With Representation: Gibson Dunn, Skadden
In this week's Taxation With Representation, Blackstone acquires Safe Harbor Marinas, National Grid sells its green subsidiary in the U.S. to Brookfield, Apollo Global Management buys Bridge Investment Group Holdings Inc., and Teleflex splits into two publicly traded companies.
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February 28, 2025
Goodwin, White & Case Build BridgeBio's $949M SPAC Deal
Clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company BridgeBio Oncology Therapeutics, advised by Goodwin Procter LLP, on Friday announced plans to go public via a merger with special purpose acquisition company Helix Acquisition Corp. II, advised by White & Case LLP, in a deal that gives the combined business an implied pro forma enterprise value of $949 million.
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February 27, 2025
Don't Fault Sterilization Co. For What It Didn't Know, Jury Told
A sterilization company's expert told a Colorado state jury Thursday that the company can't be held responsible for not using pollution controls that didn't yet exist, arguing the company has always reasonably controlled emissions of a toxic sterilization chemical based on what was known at the time.
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February 27, 2025
Liquidia Challenge To UTC's Tyvaso Exclusivity Fails
United Therapeutics Corp. is entitled to exclusivity over its blockbuster lung disease treatment Tyvaso through May, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration was right to hold off approving a competitor until then, a D.C. federal judge said Thursday.
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February 27, 2025
CooperSurgical Says Unique IVF Claims Require Separate Trials
Fertility company CooperSurgical Inc. is pushing back against the suggestion that four lawsuits accusing the company of negligently destroying embryos with its recalled culture media could be consolidated into one trial, saying the couples' varied location and unique IVF situations preclude joining them.
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February 27, 2025
$40M Deal OK'd For Suit Over Emergent Vax Flub
A Maryland federal judge approved a $40 million settlement between Emergent BioSolutions Inc. and a class of investors claiming that it misled them about its ability to meet the demands of two high-profile contracts to produce components of COVID-19 vaccines, leading the stock price to tumble after production deficiencies were discovered.
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February 27, 2025
CVS Freed From Hospital's Suit Over Drug Pricing Program
A Pennsylvania hospital's antitrust lawsuit claiming CVS forced healthcare providers participating in a federal discount drug program to go through the pharmacy chain's administrator has been tossed, with a federal judge ruling the hospital fell short in its allegations of anticompetitive behavior.
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February 27, 2025
OpenEvidence Says Rival's Attack Targeted Its AI 'Blueprint'
Medical artificial intelligence company OpenEvidence accused a Canadian competitor of launching cyberattacks on its system, executing dozens of attempts to trick the platform into handing over some of the technology's most valuable code, according to a Massachusetts federal lawsuit.
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February 27, 2025
Lead Testing Co. Director To Admit False Statements
A former quality assurance director for Magellan Diagnostics will plead guilty to making misleading statements to the government about a malfunction in a device that measures lead levels in blood, according to filings in Massachusetts federal court Thursday.
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February 27, 2025
DOJ Says It Will No Longer Defend DEA Admin Judges
The U.S. Department of Justice told a Rhode Island federal judge Thursday it would no longer defend the federal policy that protects administrative law judges from removal in a lawsuit challenging the Drug Enforcement Administration's internal proceedings.
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February 27, 2025
Ex-Worker Says Manufacturer Fails To Pay For Off-Clock Work
A pharmaceutical manufacturing company requires hourly employees to perform tasks before and after their shifts but fails to compensate them for this extra time, a proposed class and collective action filed in Washington federal court said.
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February 27, 2025
4th Circ. Rips 'Shaky At Best' Drug Price-Fixing Class Action
The Fourth Circuit backed the dismissal of a proposed class action accusing drug companies of conspiring to inflate the price of a drug for Huntington's disease, writing in the opinion that the allegations are "shaky at best," "sparsely pleaded" and "stretch civil RICO liability beyond its limits."
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February 27, 2025
McCarter & English Wants $3.8M, Ex-Client Wants New Trial
Scarcely a month after the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled that McCarter & English LLP is not entitled to $3.6 million in punitive damages from a federal fee feud with ex-client Jarrow Formulas Inc., the firm has requested a nearly $3.8 million judgment against the supplement company, while Jarrow has requested reimbursement and a new trial.
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February 27, 2025
Lenders Can't Claim Ex-Mylan VP's $4M Insider Trade Penalty
Lenders who said they were owed money by a former Mylan vice president can't call dibs on any of the $4.3 million he was ordered to forfeit as part of his guilty plea to insider trading since they hadn't shown that they had a better claim to the money than the defendant or the government, a Pennsylvania federal judge has ruled.
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February 27, 2025
Medical Device Co. Inks €760M Deal, Unveils Separation Plans
Medical device company Teleflex, advised by Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, on Thursday announced that it will split into two separate, publicly traded entities, and that it will acquire Biotronik SE & Co.'s vascular intervention business for €760 million ($791.95 million).
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February 27, 2025
Anthropic Could Hit $62B Valuation, And More Deal Rumors
AI startup Anthropic is close to securing funding at a $61.5 billion valuation, Bain Capital is mulling a sale of Rocket Software at a $10 billion valuation, and various additional private equity players are considering transactions across food, healthcare and finance. Here, Law360 breaks down these and other notable deal rumors from the past week.
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February 26, 2025
Merck, Glenmark Trim United Healthcare's Zetia Antitrust Suit
A Minnesota federal judge has trimmed a United Healthcare unit's antitrust suit claiming that Merck and Glenmark conspired to delay a generic version of the anti-cholesterol drug Zetia, throwing out non-Minnesota state-law claims he called a "bare and conclusory pleading."
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February 26, 2025
Trump Orders Fed Agencies To Plan For Large Layoffs
The White House is telling federal agencies to submit plans for "large-scale" layoffs by mid-March, accusing them of siphoning funding for "unproductive and unnecessary programs" and "not producing results for the American public."
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February 26, 2025
Simpson Thacher Adds Partner From Wilson Sonsini
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP has picked up a trial litigator from Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC who helped a startup defeat a nearly $460 million trade secrets case over expert testimony involving antibody cancer treatments and secured defense victories in patent cases for companies like Google LLC and HTC Corp.
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February 26, 2025
Planned Parenthood Immune From FCA Suit, 5th Circ. Says
Planned Parenthood is entitled to attorney immunity, the Fifth Circuit said Wednesday in a case that had accused the organization of improperly billing Medicaid programs for millions after losing its Medicaid credentials.
Expert Analysis
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Opinion
IVF Suits Highlight Need For Better Legal Frameworks
The high number of in vitro fertilization embryo losses underscores the need for more cohesive legal and regulatory guidance related to human errors, property versus personhood, and liability, says Jeff Korek at Gersowitz Libo.
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Recent Suits Show Antitrust Agencies' Focus On HSR Review
The U.S. Department of Justice's suit this month against KKR for inaccurate and incomplete premerger filings, along with other recent cases, highlights the agency's increasing scrutiny of Hart-Scott-Rodino Act compliance for private equity firms, say attorneys at Willkie.
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The 7th Circ.'s Top 10 Civil Opinions Of 2024
Attorneys at Jenner & Block examine the most significant decisions issued by the Seventh Circuit in 2024, and explain how they may affect issues related to mass arbitration, consumer fraud, class certification and more.
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Royal Canin Ruling Won't Transform Removal Jurisdiction
The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Royal Canin USA v. Wullschleger means that federal district courts must now remand whenever an amended complaint excises grounds for federal jurisdiction — but given existing litigation strategy and case law trends, this may ultimately preserve, rather than alter, the status quo, say attorneys at Norton Rose.
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Lessons From The Pharma Industry On Patent Cliffs
In the next five years, patents for drugs that have generated billions in global sales are set to expire, and companies that view this imminent patent cliff as an opportunity for strategic renewal rather than a challenge will be best positioned to maintain market leadership, says Keegan Caldwell at Caldwell Law.
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Mentorship Resolutions For The New Year
Attorneys tend to focus on personal achievements or career milestones when they set yearly goals, but one important area often gets overlooked in this process — mentoring relationships, which are some of the most effective tools for professional growth, say Kelly Galligan at Rutan & Tucker and Andra Greene at Phillips ADR.
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What Nearshoring Growth In Americas Means For Patents
With the new U.S. administration potentially focused on implementing draconian trade restrictions, nearshoring in the Americas is expected to grow, and patent prosecution attorneys will be kept on their toes as the patent landscape from country to country continues to evolve, says Ernest Huang at Procopio.
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Takeaways From FDA's Updated Confirmatory Trial Guidance
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's latest draft guidance about accelerated drug approval indicates the FDA's intent to address the significant lag time between accelerated approval and full approval of drugs and may help motivate the industry to complete confirmatory trials, say attorneys at Sheppard Mullin.
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The Most Important Schedule I Drug Regulatory Shifts Of 2024
In 2024, psychedelics and cannabis emerged as focal points in medical research, marking a pivotal year in their legal and regulatory journey, but these developments presented both opportunities and challenges within this evolving field, say Kimberly Chew at Husch Blackwell and Stephen Kim at Avicanna.
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Series
Coaching Little League Makes Me A Better Lawyer
While coaching poorly played Little League Baseball early in the morning doesn't sound like a good time, I love it — and the experience has taught me valuable lessons about imperfection, compassion and acceptance that have helped me grow as a person and as a lawyer, says Alex Barnett at DiCello Levitt.
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5 Litigation Funding Trends To Note In 2025
Lawyers and their clients must be prepared to navigate an evolving litigation funding market in 2025, made more complicated by a new administration and the increasing overall cost of litigation, says Jeffery Lula at GLS Capital.
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A Look At FDA's Plans To Establish New OTC Drug Category
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's recently finalized rule, creating a new over-the-counter pathway for drugs when patients satisfy certain conditions, may be useful for off-patent drugs with established safety records, though switching to OTC comes with additional costs and considerations, say attorneys at Skadden.
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The Fed. Circ. In 2024: 5 Major Rulings To Know
In 2024, the Federal Circuit provided a number of important clarifications to distinct areas of patent law – including design patent obviousness, expert testimony admissions and patent term adjustments – all of which are poised to have an influence going forward, say attorneys at Knobbe Martens.
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Rethinking Litigation Risk And What It Really Means To Win
Attorneys have a tendency to overestimate litigation risk before summary judgment and underestimate risk after it, but an eight-stage litigation framework can clarify risk at different points and help litigators reassess what true success looks like in any particular case, says Joshua Libling at Arcadia Finance.
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How DOGE's Bite Can Live Up To Its Bark
All signs suggest that the Department of Government Efficiency will be an important part of the new Trump administration, with ample tools at its disposal to effectuate change, particularly with an attentive Republican-controlled Congress, say attorneys at K&L Gates.