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Dog toy poking fun at Jack Daniel’s leads to dispute over parody exception to trademark protections

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The case involves a dispute between Jack Daniel’s (the largest American whiskey manufacturer) and VIP Products (the second-largest American dog toy manufacturer). 7 Tennessee Sour Mash Whiskey” manufactured by “Jack Daniel’s,” the toy refers to a “Bad Spaniel” that makes “Old No. 2 on your Tennessee carpet.”

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Supreme Court Finds CMS’ Reduction of Medicare Hospital Outpatient Payment Rates for 340B Hospitals was Not Authorized by Statute

FDA Law Blog

Circuit, but today, the Supreme Court reversed again and upheld the District Court’s opinion in American Hospital Assn v. Writing for a unanimous court, Justice Kavanaugh explained that the Medicare statute provides CMS a choice between two options on how to set reimbursement rates for drugs provided in the hospital outpatient setting.

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4th Circuit En Banc Judgment Affirms District Court Decision in Best Price Stacking Case

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As we reported, on November 5, 2020, the District Court held that the relator could not plausibly plead the requisite scienter because Forest’s interpretation of the ambiguous statute was objectively reasonable and CMS did not warn Forest away from that interpretation through authoritative guidance. Burr , 551 U.S.

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Second Circuit Decision A Reminder that Alleged FDCA violations don’t always equal FCA violations

FDA Law Blog

Last month the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed the district court’s decision to dismiss a False Claims Act (FCA) ( 21 U.S.C 3729) quit tam suit, alleging that Grifols USA, Grifols Biologicals, Grifols, S.A.,

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Reviewing the Patent Eligibility Restoration Act of 2022

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Whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent therefor, subject to the conditions and requirements of this title. process that the machine or manufacture perform. ‘(B) B) HUMAN GENES AND NATURAL MATERIALS.

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Prefiling Offer by Business Partner Dooms Patent

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The collaborative idea was that Eddings would manufacture the sheaths because Junker did not have that capability. Thus, the court has held that an offer-to-manufacture doesn’t count. In reviewing the letter, the court noted that the terms appeared quite complete.

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Would I FIE to You? FDA’s First Interchangeable Exclusivity Determination Results in Expiration

FDA Law Blog

Important to note here is that each interchangeable biosimilar was first approved as a biosimilar and each biosimilar manufacturer had been sued under the so-called “patent dance” procedure prior to seeking licensure of the biosimilar products as interchangeable. This all sounds complicated, I know.