On August 31, 2022, the PTAB instituted two inter partes reviews of Chugai and Roche's tocilizumab patents challenged by Celltrion, adding to the growing list of IPRs instituted against the tocilizumab patent estate.

In the decision denying institution, the PTAB stated that on March 14, 2022, Regeneron had notified the PTAB that it intended to disclaim the '231 patent.

On August 26, 2024, Regeneron filed a BPCIA complaint in the District Court for the District of New Jersey against Sandoz Inc. related to Sandoz's ENVEEZU (aflibercept-abzv).

Last week, Samsung Bioepis filed an IPR petition challenging claims of U.S. Patent No. 11,253,572 ("the '572 patent"), owned by Regeneron Pharmaceuticals.

As we previously reported, on June 3, 2022, Genentech filed a complaint against Tanvex in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, alleging infringement of three patents...

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On May 7, 2024, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced that it had entered into a consent order with a financial technology company.

Companies using generative AI should take steps before, during, and after writing code to avoid infringing copyrights on open source software.

The CFPB’s Student Loan Ombudsman released its annual report on private student loans and a factsheet about the report.

The United States District Court for the District of Columbia granted the FTC’s motion to dismiss, ultimately, agreeing with the FTC’s interpretation of the meaning of "uses of consumer reports" under the Fair Credit Reporting Act.

The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit ruled that a borrower can discharge her student loans under the bankruptcy code.

In answering a certified question, the Washington Supreme Court determined that MERS is not a "beneficiary" within the meaning of Washington’s Deed of Trust Act because MERS does not hold the promissory notes securing its customers’ deeds of trust.

Earlier this week, the SEC announced that it would neither seek a rehearing of the D.C. Circuit decision vacating Rule 14a-11 (commonly referred to as the proxy access rule) nor appeal the decision to the U.S. Supreme Court. Rule 14a-11 would have established a mandatory procedure applicable to all public companies (including registered investment companies) under which eligible shareholders could nominate director candidates in the company’s proxy statement.

As the next step in developing the FDIC’s implementation of its authority under the Dodd-Frank Act to resolve systemically important financial institutions.

The FRB, FDIC and OCC issued a Joint Statement providing guidance as to their supervisory expectations.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency ("FHFA") issued an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking ("ANPR") in which the FHFA stated that it is conducting a review of its regulations to identify provisions that need to be updated to ensure that FHFA regulations are consistent with the statutory requirement that there be a nexus between membership in Federal Home Loan Banks ("FHLBs") and the housing and community development mission of the FHLBs.

The recently enacted America Invents Act ("AIA") is the most far reaching reform to the patent laws in the United States since 1952.