Medical Patent Stories of the Week
Time’s Up for Patents on Drugs
Pharmaceutical companies are facing a wave of patent expirations starting this year through 2014. Exacerbating the problem is new competition from generic drugs…and…shrinking new drug approvals from the FDA.
Full story here – Pharmaceutical Company Patents Expiring
Patenting Issues to Blame?
Angiotech Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announces execution of settlement and license termination agreement with Rex Medical, LP. Further reading exposes failure to protect discoveries with patents, loss of patent protection and liability for patent claims may be to blame.
Full story here – Rex Med and Lax Patent
Stem Cells vs. Patents
Could pharma patents be holding back stem cell research? Scientists at John Hopkins seem to think so.
Full story here – Bioethicists on Patents
Jellyfish Patent?
A Japanese company has applied for a patent that improves immunity in fish against certain diseases. Surprisingly, this comes from a fish predator…jellyfish.
Full story here – Collagen Patent
Patent helps Patients Breathe Easier
"This particular patent is key to our company’s entry into an emerging new field of patient positioning, namely Safe Anatomic Positioning™, or the ability to raise, lower, and adjust selected parts of the body while the patient is on an operating table or in another hospital unit — without requiring nurses to manually lift patients and use towels or linens to prop them up," said Robert Weedling, founder and chairman of AirPal Patient Transfer Systems.
Full story here – Patent for Bariatric Patients
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