All GLG News Analyses Filed Under: Legal Issues

Although the PRC Court has given its final determination in relation to the insufficiency issue, this is not the end of Pfizer's VIAGRA patent dispute in China. The Beijing No 1 People’s Court noted that the Patent Review Board had reviewed only the insufficiency ground, and it had referred...

"Stay" orders merely suspend but do not end a judicial proceeding. The stay was issued because of pending because the U.S. International Trade Commission is holding hearings in a similar case. Although not legally binding on German courts, the record of the U.S. International Trade Commission proceedings...

1. A 3 ring binder needs to be prepared for each filed or contemplated matter of litigation. The binder needs the basic documents of the case: (a) the Complaint or correspodence raising the issues, (b) any contracts involved, and (c) memos and e mails from either side that either summarize matters or...

In my prior Tue 31 Jul 2007 Analysis available here http://news.glgroup.com/CM/Analysis/PostDetail.aspx?pid=14722 I stated: The upcoming Altace ® Opinion will most likely fall in line with this noted trend. In other words, King Pharmaceutical [NYSE:KG]'s patent protection for Altace ® (ramipril)...

The Fixed Rate Tax (IETU), a central part of the Mexican Tax Reform, may become a reality, allowing salaries as deductibles.  This tax will charge a 16% tax rate for Corporations next year, and 19% after that, and can be deducted from Income Tax if Corporations pay a higher percentage than that...

With respect to the blockbuster antidepressant drug Lexapro®, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, CAFC or Fed Cir, affirmed the prior November, 2006 Opinion of the Delaware District Court with respect to Plaintiff Forest Labs (NYSE:FRX) Paragraph (IV) patent infringement litigation...

The Third Circuit has reinstated significant parts of BRCM's antitrust case against QCOM.  In this post, I sketch some implications of that decision.

The Mexican Congress has to decide this week, before the 8th of september, whether they will approve the Tax and Electoral Reforms presented by the President.  Mexico's lack of reforms is making the country lose competitiveness. The President has to present budgets for next year, with or without...

Indeed, Qualcomm Inc may have the chance to retry part of a patent infringement lawsuit the chip maker lost to rival Broadcom Corp. However, one of the problems with such approach is that whatever Qualcomm may say against Broadcom, Nokia can use against Qualcomm. Qualcomm situation is very delicate....

Last week's decision in the Align/Ormco appeal is hard to parse, and indeed on first blush might look like a win for Ormco.  A more careful analysis, however, reveals that Align's charaterization is closer to right: Ormco "won" a few claims, but those wins are far from strong, and they were paired...