Category: Pharmaceutical Industry
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Munich I Regional Court’s written reasons for multi-country pharma PI: out-of-district defendants can be sued, German procedures apply
The Munich I Regional Court’s headnotes are highly instructive and make the court an attractive forum for cross-border injunctions.
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Pharma patent litigation updates: Boehringer, Orion, Pfizer, Kaleo file fresh patent infringement suits in District of Delaware
The District of Delaware continues to receive a substantial volume of pharmaceutical patent infringement complaints, with an arthritis-related Pfizer suit and diabetes-related Boehringer suit among the latest.
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AstraZeneca faces fresh mRNA patent infringement allegations in District of Delaware
Gene-editing tech company Factor Bioscience has sued AstraZeneca and its affiliate Cellectis over the infringement of three mRNA-related patents.
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Federal Circuit partly grants Bayer second chance in defending rivaroxaban patent invalidation campaign
The Federal Circuit has partly affirmed and partly vacated a United States Patent and Trademark Office’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board decision that deemed one of Bayer’s rivaroxaban-related patents invalid, in a three-year case initiated by rivals Mylan Pharmaceuticals, Teva Pharmaceuticals, and Invagen Pharmaceuticals.
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Moderna, Alnylam settle U.S. COVID vaccine patent infringement dispute
Alnylam has settled its three-year dispute against Moderna in the District of Delaware, after a precedential Federal Circuit decision found the patentee had acted as its own lexicographer in defining a key patent specification term, foreclosing its infringement allegations.
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Doctrine of equivalents removes painkiller from German market: Grünenthal wins preliminary injunction on appeal
A pharma patent and unfair competition dispute has taken a remarkable turn as the Dusseldorf Higher Regional Court granted a preliminary injunction based on infringement by equivalents.
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Regeneron makes strides in global Eylea patent enforcement campaign: settles with Sandoz, files fresh UK suits
Regeneron has settled its year-long patent infringement dispute with Sandoz over several patents related to its eye disease drug Eylea, and filed a fresh lawsuit against two more rivals over the same drug in the High Court of Justice for England & Wales.
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Pfizer, BioNTech hit back against GSK mRNA suits in UPC, Ireland: file UK revocation action
The move does not come as a major surprise, given the pharma companies’ previous success against GlaxoSmithKline in the UK.
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Post-judgment cleanup orders in UK pharma cases: no disgorgement of Bayer profits; Teva, Glenmark, Generics (UK) recover two thirds of costs
AstraZeneca must reimburse two thirds of the costs of an unsuccessful case Teva, Glenmark and Generics (UK). Separately, Bayer does not have to disgorge profits to Sandoz.
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Boehringer wins nintedanib PI against Zentiva as UPC CoA reverses Lisbon LD on when infringement is imminent, clarifies how to argue national law
Context: Three months ago, the Unified Patent Court’s (UPC) Lisbon Local Division (LD) denied an application for provisional measures (which in some other jurisdictions would be called a motion for a preliminary injunction (PI)) by Boehringer Ingelheim against Zentiva, holding that an infringement did not appear imminent (item 2 of our May 10, 2025 UPC…