IP Law 360

AUGUST 31, 2022

An expert on creatine continued his criticisms of Vital Pharmaceuticals Inc.'s s false ad claims that there are "zero" known scientific studies supporting the company's assertions about its health benefits.

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IP Law 360

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

urged a California federal jury Tuesday during closing arguments to award the company over $297 million from Vital Pharmaceuticals Inc. after a trial largely focused on claims that Vital falsely advertised super creatine, while Vital's attorney said the case suffers a "fatal problem of proof."

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IP Law 360

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Vital Pharmaceuticals Inc. insisting no studies are needed on the "super creatine" ingredient in the company's Bang energy drink while standing by his claims about its health and muscle-building benefits.

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IP Law 360

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

executive told a California federal jury Friday that company documents and database access allegedly taken by a former employee and given to rival Vital Pharmaceuticals Inc. contained confidential information that could be damaging in the hands of another energy drink company. A Monster Energy Co.

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IPilogue

JANUARY 25, 2023

This semester, as part of Osgoode’s Intellectual Property Law & Technology Intensive Program, I had the pleasure of participating in a 10-week internship at Teva Canada (“Teva”), a (mainly) generics pharmaceutical company, and it was the highlight of my tenure thus far at Osgoode. I participated in a settlement negotiation.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 19, 2023

This is a vital provision that seeks to foster competition in cases where patentees are unable to meet local demands. Such a provision might have decreased risk-taking behaviour of pharmaceutical companies that adopt similar names for drugs that treat very different conditions.

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Nelligan Law

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

This witness testified of a complex conspiracy theory involving the pharmaceutical industry whereby vaccinations were “concocted to boost lagging sales of new products on behalf of pharmaceutical companies having little or nothing new to market.” The witness himself had been employed by the pharmaceutical industry.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Biotech companies recognize the value of securing intellectual property rights to bring their products and therapies to market, resulting in a surge in patent applications. Biotechnology is a global industry, with companies and researchers competing on an international scale.

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Velocity of Content

JUNE 23, 2022

Internal Expertise : At smaller companies with limited resources, it may be obvious who the experts are. External Partners : If all your R&D has been done in-house so far, it may be as simple as looking to existing partners for some additional development or technology from outside the company.

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43(B)log

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Vital Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Vital also wanted to talk about Monster’s purported development of energy drinks that contained a manufactured creatine supplement. Monster Energy Co. 2022 WL 17218077, No. EDCV 18-1882 JGB (SHKx) (C.D. General factual similarity wasn’t enough.

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Velocity of Content

APRIL 2, 2024

Efficiency is vital for data science teams working to complete time-sensitive projects. A vendor is also able to bring speed, focus, and efficiency to the work of creating valuable datasets, allowing companies to allocate their resources more effectively. Another example could be when the data you need is time-bound or transient.

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Kashishipr

DECEMBER 1, 2021

It is becoming increasingly vital that Registered Trademarks are used to maintain their validity and their ability to be enforced against third parties. If not, then is it being used by someone else (including another company within the group that the registered proprietor is in)? Is the mark being used by the registered proprietor?

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 27, 2023

Direct Biologics is a biotechnology company which manufactures two pharmaceutical products, AmnioWrap, an allograft skin substitute for tissue repair, and ExoFlo, a proprietary extracellular vesicle (“EV”) used in treatment of severe COVID-19.

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Trading Secrets

APRIL 27, 2023

Direct Biologics is a biotechnology company which manufactures two pharmaceutical products, AmnioWrap, an allograft skin substitute for tissue repair, and ExoFlo, a proprietary extracellular vesicle (“EV”) used in treatment of severe COVID-19.

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SpicyIP

JULY 2, 2021

With this new 10-year contract, LexisNexis Reed Tech further cements its unique position as a partner and solution provider to a diverse mix of audiences ranging from Intellectual Property departments and Government institutions to life sciences and pharmaceutical manufacturers. The strength and vitality of the U.S. About the USPTO.

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SpicyIP

APRIL 7, 2024

His research focuses on intellectual property rights in relation to health systems, sustainable development and innovation, pharmaceutical patents, knowledge governance, and technology and law. This could make it harder to force companies to license patents if they are not being used to make affordable products in India.

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43(B)log

AUGUST 25, 2021

It sued First Databank for coding implemented in the latter’s pharmaceutical database: Historically, the “class value” field in the MedKnowledge database indicated whether manufacturers identified their products as prescription-only. Alfasigma persuasively alleged that the database is critical to the billion-dollar pharmaceutical industry.

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Kashishipr

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

There are undoubtedly many ways in which counterfeiting harms a business; some of those are as follows: Counterfeit products reduce the profits for legitimate business companies. Instead of putting money into R&D, business companies are forced to allocate resources towards combating the fakes.

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Intepat

JUNE 9, 2023

Introduction: Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) play a vital role in driving innovation, fostering creativity, and ensuring fair competition in today’s knowledge-based economy. The policy is more inclined towards the pharmaceutical industry. This has caused economic distress rather than relief.

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Bio Law Blog

APRIL 28, 2020

While existing antivirals and anti-inflammatory drugs are undergoing clinical testing against COVID-19 now , biopharmaceutical companies are taking a variety of approaches to develop new therapies. These come from stem cell-focused companies, including Hope Biosciences , Celltex and Athersys.

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Bio Law Blog

APRIL 5, 2020

The development and deployment of diagnostic and pharmaceutical products on a short-enough timeline and wide-enough scale will require the marshaling of scientific resources to a degree perhaps unprecedented in history. Companies and regulatory agencies have taken drastic steps to speed up this timeline. There is reason for optimism.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 30, 2023

The case involves Vital Pharmaceuticals, which markets “performance energy drinks” a/k/a drinks that accelerate your death. Its flagship product is Bang , which might have been a sexual allusion but now is an apt description of the company’s fate. The company fired its CEO, Mr. Owoc, and is now in Chapter 11.

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Intellectual Property Office Blog

APRIL 24, 2020

IP-rich pharmaceutical organisations have been making their IP-protected knowledge available for free. In other instances, companies have indicated they will not enforce their patent rights, allowing use of generic drugs if there is a shortage of branded treatments. Collaborations across a range of sectors have brought speedy results.

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Kashishipr

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The same can be possible through trademarking any word, symbol, design, or phrase that the company uses to identify itself in the marketplace. However, the owners must conduct diligent research before settling on the identifying material for their company. Part of this research includes performing a Trademark Clearance Search.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

From the companies’ point of view, the great power of influencers is their ability to connect with the consumers on a personal level making them more likely to buy the promoted products. The agreement between the company and the influencer can consist of direct payments, gifts, or discounts. The issue was heard by a U.S.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Read more in this post by Pranav and Swaraj to understand how this system could be getting exploited by pharmaceutical companies and why this is a big move by the FTC, furthering access to important medicines in the US. Read Reva’s post to know more! Following some extremely interesting insights from a compelling talk by Prof A.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 11, 2023

Without doubt, transposing this provision was particularly problematic because, as the European home of some of the world’s largest tech companies, Ireland has notoriously avoided – in ways which are often of dubious legitimacy – taking a hard stance over the compliance of digital businesses with EU law.

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