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Life Sciences
Life Sciences À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ provides breaking legal news and analysis on the pharmaceutical and medical device industry. Coverage includes high-stakes litigation and policy developments that affect life sciences companies, as well as licensing deals, mergers, and other corporate transactions.
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Latest News in Life Sciences
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August 20, 2025
Masimo's 'Empty Voting' Suit Against Founder Survives
A California federal judge has rejected a bid to dismiss Masimo Corp.'s suit alleging the medical technology company's founder and an investment firm manipulated a shareholder vote through an "empty voting" scheme, finding there is enough evidence at this point to show the pair formed an undisclosed insider group under federal securities laws.
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August 20, 2025
Talphera Beats Investors' Bid To Save Slogan Suit At 9th Circ.
The Ninth Circuit on Wednesday refused to revive a proposed shareholder class action accusing Talphera Inc. of misleading investors about the simplicity of administering the pharmaceutical company's "Tongue and Done" opioid, saying in a published opinion that no reasonable investor would "blindly" accept the slogan without considering other information.
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August 20, 2025
Feds Lose Bid To Seal In Vax Patent Case Against Moderna
The U.S. government has failed to show why names and contact information of certain U.S. Department of the Army employees should be hidden in an mRNA vaccine developer's $5 billion patent suit over Moderna's COVID-19 vaccines, a federal judge has found.
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August 20, 2025
How Agentic AI Is Testing The Limits Of Patent Law
While a recent Swiss court ruling suggests that human-centric rules regarding inventorship will likely remain in place for the near future, it captures a core tension confronting patent systems worldwide as the technology producing patent-worthy ideas is becoming increasingly autonomous, says Matthew Carey at Marshall Gerstein.
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August 20, 2025
Texas AG Threatens Suit Over Orgs. Mailing Abortion Pills
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has sent cease-and-desist letters to three organizations he's accused of shipping abortion drugs to women in the state in violation of state and federal laws.
Areas of Coverage
- AGENCIES
- U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
- U.S. Food and Drug Administration
- U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
- U.S. International Trade Commission
- POLICY & REGULATION
- Affordable Care Act
- Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act
- Antitrust and consumer protection controls
- Drug and medical device lobbying
- State and international life sciences legislation and regulation
- ENFORCEMENT
- Drug and medical device recalls
- Drug safety actions
- Pay-for-delay investigations
- Merger reviews
- LITIGATION
- Patent disputes, including
- Abbreviated New Drug Application litigation
- Section 301 cases
- Product safety suits over drugs and medical devices, including off-label marketing and failure-to-warn claims
- Consumer litigation and class actions
- Fraud and compliance suits
- Antitrust disputes
- Labor and employment suits
- Shareholder and corporate governance disputes
- Bankruptcy proceedings
- TRANSACTIONS
- Mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures
- Share buybacks and stock splits
- Private equity deals
- Patent-licensing agreements
- PROFILES
- Personnel moves
- Profiles of life sciences practice groups
Readership
- Life sciences lawyers at top law firms
- Corporate counsel and compliance officers at Fortune 1000 companies
- Executives and attorneys in the drug, biotechnology, and medical device industries
- Information experts at law firms, agencies, and companies
- Policymakers at federal and state agencies
- Judges and court staff across the U.S.
- Professors, students, and library staff at every accredited law school in the U.S.
- Attorney and law firm marketing professionals