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Developing IP Strategy for FDA-Regulated Drug Products Requires Special Considerations

More Than Your Mark

Despite the widely diverging needs of the different industries that make use of the US patent system, US patent law applies essentially the same rules to innovations from all technology fields. This means that drug and biotechnology-based inventions are treated no differently by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) as inventions in fields such as computer science, information technology, household consumer products, financial services, and industrial chemicals, etc.

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Did AMI Extort Jeff Bezos and Jeopardize its Cooperation Agreement?

GDB Firm Blog

A cooperation agreement provides, in sum and substance, that in exchange for providing information to the federal government, the government will inform the court of such cooperation when it comes time to impose sentence. It is a key component of every cooperation agreement that the cooperating witness commit no additional crimes during the course of the cooperation.