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Surely You Must be Kidding, PTO?!? “No, and Don’t Call Me Shirley!” – The Seemingly Slapstick (But Yet Unfunny) World of Recent Patent Term Extension Decisions (PART 1)

FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

2003) , and Biogen lnt’l v. The PTO’s not-even-specious-argument, citing what certainly appears to us to be absolutely irrelevant case law, such as Novartis AG v. Ezra Ventures LLC, 909 F.3d 3d 1367 (Fed. 2018) , Arnold Partnership v. Rogan , 246 F. 2d 460 (E.D. Banner Life Sciences LLC, 956 F.3d 3d 1351 (Fed.

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Marijuana: Top Ten Reasons for Descheduling, Rescheduling or Not

FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

Not surprisingly, then-presidential candidate Asa Hutchinson, DEA Administrator from 2001 to 2003, did not sign the letter. The earliest tenured is John Bartels, who served as Administrator from 1973 to 1975. Letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland and Administrator Anne Milgram, from Elizabeth Warren, et al.