Medical Patent News

RSS

Wolf Medical Supply, I-Flow settle patent dispute on Redi-Flo Infusion Pump

Wolf Medical Supply, Inc. and I-Flow Corporation, a division of Kimberly-Clark Corporation, have settled out of court ending the patent dispute regarding the Redi-Flo™ Infusion Pump.

25 May 2010

Patent applications for Shrink's stem cell research and drug discovery tool StemDisc filed

Shrink Nanotechnologies, Inc., an innovative nanotechnology company developing products and licensing opportunities in the solar energy production, medical diagnostics and sensors, and biotechnology research and development tools businesses, announced today that patent applications for its stem cell research and drug discovery tool StemDisc have been filed.

24 May 2010

Abviva receives new patent grant notifications for MSA technology

Abviva, Inc., a biomedical company engaged in the development and commercialization of breast cancer related applications of Mammastatin, today provided further details about worldwide patent protection for its breast cancer risk assessment technology.

24 May 2010

Salix announces additional intellectual property protection for rifaximin in treatment of IBS

Salix Pharmaceuticals, Ltd. today announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued U.S. Patent No. 7,718,608. This patent provides protection until August 2019 for rifaximin, which Salix markets in the United States under the trade names XIFAXAN® (200mg) and XIFAXAN550™ (550mg).

21 May 2010

Toxcure granted U.S. patent for method of treating neoplasms with neurotoxins

Toxcure, LLC, an emerging specialty biopharmaceutical company, today announced the grant of U.S. Patent No. 7,709,440, which provides Toxcure with intellectual property protection for a method of treating various tumors with neurotoxins.

21 May 2010

Biocept granted US patent for cell separation technology using microfluidic device

Biocept, Inc., an emerging leader in rare cell capture, announced today that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued a patent for Biocept's cell separation technology using a microfluidic device. U.S. patent #7,695,956 entitled "Device for Cell Separation and Analysis and Method of Using" protects Biocept's microflow device to isolate cells from a bodily fluid using a flow path where straight-line flow is interrupted by transverse posts arranged in a random pattern.

21 May 2010

Collegium Pharmaceutical receives Notice of Allowance from USPTO for DETERx technology

Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc., a specialty pharmaceutical company, today announced that it has received Notice of Allowance from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for its patent application "Abuse-Deterrent Drug Formulations", US Patent Application Number 11/149,867. The Notice of Allowance is the USPTO's official communication that the Company's application has successfully completed examination and that a patent will be issued.

20 May 2010

EPO rules in favor of Alnylam Pharmaceuticals’ Kreutzer-Limmer '945 patent

Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a leading RNAi therapeutics company, announced today that the Board of Appeals of the European Patent Office (EPO) has ruled that claims of the Kreutzer-Limmer '945 (EP 1214945) patent meet needed requirements under European patent law. The '945 patent comprises broad claims covering the length and certain structural requirements for siRNAs that are important for advancement of RNAi therapeutics.

20 May 2010

USPTO issues Soligenix patent for use of beclomethasone dipropionate in treatment of IBS

Soligenix, Inc., a late-stage biopharmaceutical company, announced today that the United States Patent Office (USPTO) has issued a patent (US 7,704,985) entitled "Treatment of Irritable Bowel Syndrome and Related Bowel Diseases." The patent claims the use of beclomethasone dipropionate (BDP) to treat irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), a painful gastrointestinal condition that affects approximately 15% of the population in the industrialized world.

19 May 2010

Aerocrine acquires all business, intellectual property assets of Apieron

Aerocrine AB today announced that it has acquired all business assets and intellectual property assets from the bankruptcy estate of Apieron Inc. As a result, Apieron's litigation against Aerocrine in the U.S. and Germany will be terminated and dismissed. Aerocrine's patent infringement claims in the U.S. against Apieron's estate will not be dismissed, however.

19 May 2010

Molecular Devices' foundational planar patch-clamp patent upheld by European Patent Office

Molecular Devices today announced that European Patent Office (EPO) has upheld Molecular Devices foundational planar patch-clamp patent (EP No 1 040 349 B1). The board will issue a written decision to this effect in the near future. The ruling will be the final determination of the EPO and cannot be appealed.

19 May 2010

Vect-Horus accentuates its leadership in delivering drugs to the central nervous system

Vect-Horus is a biotechnology company based on the scientific work of Dr. Michel Khrestchatisky and specializes in the development of peptide and pseudo-peptide-based vector molecules for drug targeting and delivery to the central nervous system (CNS).

18 May 2010

Abviva receives Japanese patent for Mammastatin Serum Assay

Abviva, Inc., a biomedical company engaged in the development and commercialization of breast cancer related applications of Mammastatin, announced today that the Japanese Patent Office issued two patents on the core technology that may be used for therapeutic applications and in the Company's breast cancer risk assessment test, the Mammastatin Serum Assay (MSA).

18 May 2010

BioSante receives two new US patents covering 2A/Furin technology for expressing proteins

BioSante Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced the receipt of two US new patents directed to its 2A/Furin technology for expressing proteins. The first issued US patent, US Pat. No., 7,709,224, covers methods for manufacturing recombinant antibodies. By incorporating our 2A/Furin technology into antibody-expression in viral vectors it is possible to rapidly generate stable, high producing antibody cell lines.

18 May 2010

Teva agrees to settle patent litigation regarding generic version of AstraZeneca's Entocort EC capsules

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. announced today that it has entered into an agreement with AstraZeneca to settle patent litigation regarding Teva's U.S. generic version of AstraZeneca's Entocort EC (budesonide) capsules.

18 May 2010

Power3 Medical Products files provisional patent applications with USPTO

Power3 Medical Products, Inc. announced today that it has filed two provisional patent applications with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) - one on Alzheimer's disease specific differential diagnosis in the clinical setting and the other on important differences in pathophysiology and therapeutic options for the genetically distinct groups of Alzheimer's disease patients.

15 May 2010

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office grants patent to Historx's AQUA technology

HistoRx , Inc., announced today that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted a patent protecting the company's methods for determining a cancer patient's prognosis based on sub-cellular localization of biomarkers.

15 May 2010

Intellipharmaceutics announces dismissal of patent litigation settlement on Focalin XR drug

Intellipharmaceutics International Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiary Intellipharmaceutics Corp. today announced that it and its licensee and development partner Par Pharmaceutical, Inc. ("Par") have received confirmation that the previously announced stays of the patent litigation concerning a generic version of Novartis' Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder drug, Focalin XR®, (dexmethylphenidate hydrochloride), have expired without regulatory intervention, and that the parties have stipulated to a dismissal of the litigation.

15 May 2010

IpAuctions schedules sale of Zassi's pouchless ostomy management technology IP portfolio

IpAuctions™ has scheduled a live international corporate sale of the extensive IP portfolio of pouchless ostomy management technologies owned by Zassi Holdings, Inc. Zassi, the Florida-based firm, fosters breakthrough medical devices that are materially evolving the life sciences industry.

15 May 2010

Celsis IVT settles LiverPool patent infringement suit, XenoTech to stop sale of CryoXTreme products

Celsis International Ltd. announced today that Celsis In Vitro, Inc. has reached a settlement agreement with XenoTech, LLC, Sekisui Chemical Co. Ltd., and Sekisui Medical Co. Ltd. in a patent infringement lawsuit filed by Celsis IVT on February 2, 2010.

14 May 2010

Medical Patent News

Wolf Medical Supply, I-Flow settle patent dispute on Redi-Flo Infusion Pump

Patent applications for Shrink's stem cell research and drug discovery tool StemDisc filed

Abviva receives new patent grant notifications for MSA technology

Salix announces additional intellectual property protection for rifaximin in treatment of IBS

Toxcure granted U.S. patent for method of treating neoplasms with neurotoxins

Biocept granted US patent for cell separation technology using microfluidic device

Collegium Pharmaceutical receives Notice of Allowance from USPTO for DETERx technology

EPO rules in favor of Alnylam Pharmaceuticals’ Kreutzer-Limmer '945 patent

USPTO issues Soligenix patent for use of beclomethasone dipropionate in treatment of IBS

Aerocrine acquires all business, intellectual property assets of Apieron

Molecular Devices' foundational planar patch-clamp patent upheld by European Patent Office

Vect-Horus accentuates its leadership in delivering drugs to the central nervous system

Abviva receives Japanese patent for Mammastatin Serum Assay

BioSante receives two new US patents covering 2A/Furin technology for expressing proteins

Teva agrees to settle patent litigation regarding generic version of AstraZeneca's Entocort EC capsules

Power3 Medical Products files provisional patent applications with USPTO

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office grants patent to Historx's AQUA technology

Intellipharmaceutics announces dismissal of patent litigation settlement on Focalin XR drug

IpAuctions schedules sale of Zassi's pouchless ostomy management technology IP portfolio

Celsis IVT settles LiverPool patent infringement suit, XenoTech to stop sale of CryoXTreme products

Small solutions for big problems in drug discovery and delivery

Professor Nancy Ip: Pioneering New Paths in Neurodegenerative Therapy

Utilizing process Raman in optimizing cultivated meat production

Latest News