On February 28, 2022, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) issued a decision in Interference No. 106,115, which granted
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Delaware Judge Denies Sarepta Protection Under Hatch-Waxman “Safe Harbor”
On January 4, 2022, Judge Andrews from the United States District Court for the District of Delaware denied Sarepta Therapeutics,
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mRNA Patent and Competitive Landscape: 2021 Year in Review and 2022 Outlook
In April of 2021, we provided a three-part series relating to the IP and Competitive Landscape for the mRNA market.
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Three (3) Initial Considerations for Entrepreneurial Faculty, Researchers, Post-Docs, and Graduate Students
Introduction
Universities and certain colleges in the United States (US) spend billions of dollars on research and development (R&D) each
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Alphabet Dives Further Into AI-Driven Drug Discovery
Google’s parent company Alphabet announced the launch of a new company this week dedicated to applying deep learning methods to
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Vertex and Mammoth Biosciences Ink $700M Deal for Ultra-Small CRISPR Systems
Vertex Pharmaceuticals and Mammoth Biosciences, a Brisbane, California-based genetic research company, announced a new collaboration for the development of in
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Pfizer and Voyager Agree to Develop Neurologic and Cardiovascular Gene Therapies Valued at up to $630 Million
On October 6, 2021, Voyager Therapeutics and Pfizer entered into a license option agreement, which allows Pfizer to exercise options
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Abbvie and Regenexbio Agree to Develop and Commercialize Eye Disease Gene Therapy
On September 13, 2021, Regenxbio, a Maryland biotech company, and AbbVie announced that they have entered an agreement to develop
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Moderna’s Next Steps: Spikevax Today, Gene Editing Tomorrow
Following the successful development (and financial success) of its mRNA vaccine, biotech company Moderna is now looking to expand into
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Caribou Biosciences Raises $304M in Potentially the Largest Gene Editing IPO
Caribou Biosciences, Inc., a Berkeley, California-based CRISPR genome-editing biopharmaceutical company, raised $304M in an initial public offering, one of the
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