With an eye toward the future, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is seeking comment on artificial intelligence (AI) technologies and inventorship issues that may arise as AI takes on a bigger role in innovation.
Regulatory snapshots, including global submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Anavasi Diagnostics, Concept Medical, Hyperfine.
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Everest, GSK, Phathom.
It may still be true that a majority of medical devices are manufactured in the U.S., but that doesn’t stop the FDA from dropping a warning letter on facilities located outside the U.S. (OUS). In one of these warning letters, Microvention Inc., of Aliso Viejo, Calif., received a warning letter for its plant in Costa Rica, although the FDA waited until the second week of February to post the Sept. 30, 2022, warning.
Regulatory snapshots, including global submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Catalyst Orthoscience.
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Alvotech, Bellerophon, Medicinova, Mesoblast, Regeneron.
U.S. drug prices continue to be in the crosshairs of Congress, with the Senate Judiciary Committee once again sending five bipartisan bills targeting anticompetitive pricing tactics to the full Senate Feb. 9 with do-pass recommendations.
With China taking steps to enact or propose amendments to more than 60 intellectual property (IP)-related laws and regulations over the past few years, drug and device companies doing business in the country need to keep abreast of the changes. Despite China’s efforts, most of the participants in the Feb. 9 U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s quarterly China IP webinar indicated in a pre-webinar survey that they have yet to see much of an improvement in China’s enforcement and regulation of IP rights.
Strong data for pegylated interferon lambda, Eiger Biopharmaceuticals Inc.’s experimental COVID-19 treatment, boosted the company stock (NASDAQ:EIGR) 23% on Feb. 9 as the company continues to seek regulatory approval. That approval path is blocked as interferon lambda is not currently approved by the U.S. FDA for any use. In October, the company said it would not submit emergency authorization use request after feedback from the FDA.
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