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Amgen Inc. v. Sandoz Inc, No. 2022-1147 (Fed. Cir. Apr. 19, 2023)

Intellectual Property Law Blog

Background Amgen produces and markets apremilast, a medication for the treatment of certain types of psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis, under the brand name Otezla. Sandoz submitted an Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) seeking approval to market a generic version of apremilast. Holding(s) No.

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Evaluating the efficacy of Competition Commission Amendment Act, 2023

IP and Legal Filings

Introduction Incorporating a novel focus on the digital market environment, the Competition Amendment Act, 2023 stands out as one of the most momentous changes made to the Competition Act of 2002 in the last two decades. The modifications intend to modify the 2002 Competition Act. This promotes transparency and teamwork.

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Intellectual Property Law and Competition Law: Conflicting or Complementing

IIPRD

In contrast to this, the Competition Law aims to prevent monopoly and provide fair competition and aims at reducing entry barriers in the market. In contrast, the CCI has the authority to decide upon all the happenings in the market. Therefore, the two legislations clearly have contrasting objectives.

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LulaNO: The Legal Future of Multi-Level Marketing Companies

LexBlog IP

Founded in 2012 as a multi-level marketing company (“MLM”) selling women’s clothing, LuLaRoe reached 80,000 distributors by 2017. Throughout this blog post, I take a legal look at both multi-level marketing companies and their close relation to pyramid schemes and Ponzi schemes. MLMs are nothing new.

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Coffee capsules, reels and vacuum cleaner bags:  Can you protect the industrial design of components?

Garrigues Blog

of Regulation 6/2002 on Community designs (Regulation 6/2002) excludes the protection of component parts of complex products that are not visible during the normal use of the product. of Regulation 6/2002. of Regulation 6/2002). Specifically, article 4.2 Article 4.3

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How original is a cat litter tray?

The IPKat

Savic owns two Community designs for cat litter trays, marketed as Nestor ( 002090365-0001 , to the right) and Nestor Corner ( 002472472-0002 ). 8 Regulation 6/2002), not being new (Art. 5 Regulation 6/2002) and not having individual character (Art. 6 Regulation 6/2002). 8 Regulation 6/2002. Pursuant to Arts.

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Another “brick” in Lego’s modular systems design protection

The IPKat

The GC recalled that “a design is declared invalid, in accordance with the provisions of Article 8 of Regulation No 6/2002, only in the case where all of its characteristics are excluded from protection. In the meantime many competitors have entered the market with their “bricks” that perfectly combine with Lego’s bricks.

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