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Lilly challenging Biogen patent in London lawsuit

January 5, 2012
Bloomberg News
Eli Lilly and Co. has sued Biogen Idec Inc. in a London court to revoke a European patent on a potential treatment for immune-system diseases.
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Patent expirations up pressure on Lilly

December 24, 2011
Eli Lilly and Co. lost patent protection on its $5-billion-a-year best-seller Zyprexa in October, plunging the company into the long-awaited zone of uncertainty that it calls “Years YZ.”
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JONES: Patent reform is mixed bag for life sciences companiesRestricted Content

November 26, 2011
Kristin Jones / Special to IBJ
For Indiana's life sciences sector, the change both raises hopes and creates challenges for continued growth.
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Lilly files suit over flea medication sales from Australia

November 11, 2011
Scott Olson
The Indianapolis-based pharmaceutical firm claims an Australian veterinary clinic is infringing on its Comfortis flea medication's trademark by reselling it to U.S. consumers online.
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BorgWarner sues Cummins over patents on turbochargers

October 27, 2011
Bloomberg News
BorgWarner Inc., the world’s biggest maker of automatic-transmission parts for vehicles, filed a lawsuit accusing Cummins Inc. of infringing on three patents for a titanium wheel used in engine turbochargers.
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Zyprexa era comes to an end for LillyRestricted Content

October 27, 2011
 IBJ Staff
On Oct. 24, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first generic versions of Eli Lilly and Co.’s best-seller, ending 15 years of highly lucrative sales.
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Lilly: Vendors key after Zyprexa patent loss

October 24, 2011
J.K. Wall
Lilly's patent-loss challenges—the biggest of which takes effect today—will force the company to rely even more on its 1,300 Indiana vendors.
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Senate passes overhaul of patent system

September 10, 2011
Bloomberg News
The legislation would fundamentally alter the way patents are reviewed and mark the biggest change to U.S. patent law since at least 1952.
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Despite sales spike, Effient has middling prospects

July 25, 2011
J.K. Wall
Remember Effient? The blood thinner that was once Eli Lilly and Co.’s greatest post-Zyprexa hope and then, after a slow launch, was dismissed as an abject failure? Well, it’s turning out to defy both predictions.
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Lilly CEO: Immigration, tax laws slow innovation

June 23, 2011
Bloomberg News
The U.S. government needs to open its borders to attract and retain talented scientists for drugmakers to employ, Eli Lilly & Co. CEO John Lechleiter plans to tell a technology conference Thursday.
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Growth in drug spending to slow as generics rise

May 18, 2011
Bloomberg News
The annual growth rate in spending on drugs may be cut in half over the next five years as people opt for less expensive generic medicines over brand-name treatments, a health-care research group said Wednesday, highlighting the challenge pharmaceutical firms like Eli Lilly and Co. are facing.
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Zimmer, peer sued over arthritic-knee treatments

April 26, 2011
Bloomberg News
Genzyme Corp., the drugmaker bought by Sanofi-Aventis SA this month, sued Zimmer Holdings Inc. and Anika Therapeutics Inc. alleging the companies’ treatments for arthritic knee pain infringe a patent.
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Firm joins race with IU autism drug

April 9, 2011
J.K. Wall
The Indiana University School of Medicine has licensed a pediatric psychiatrist's patent on an alcohol-dependency drug that the doctor discovered improves the language and social skills of autism patients. IU has licensed the patent to Indianapolis-based Confluence Pharmaceuticals Inc.
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Lechleiter: After the deluge, we'll be fine

March 16, 2011
J.K. Wall
Eli Lilly and Co. CEO John Lechleiter visited Japan last week—three days before the massive earthquake—to deliver his tried-and-true message: Drug companies need to reinvent invention, governments needs to support innovation, and Lilly will be just fine after it has sustained the damage of the next three years.
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Dow Chemical moves toward engineered corn patent

March 1, 2011
Associated Press
Dow Chemical Co.'s agricultural division said it has taken the next step toward gaining international patent rights for its new strain of genetically engineered corn that it says will help farmers battle a new strain of "super-weeds."
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Congress takes up major change in patent law

February 28, 2011
Associated Press
Congress has been trying for well over a decade to rewrite patent law, only to be thwarted by the many interested parties.
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Intellectual property theft rising quicklyRestricted Content

February 26, 2011
Bob Kronemyer / Special to IBJ
Filching ranges from crude to highly sophisticated, experts say.
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Emerging markets give Lilly hope in patent crunch

February 19, 2011
J.K. Wall
In a kind of alternate drug universe, sales of Eli Lilly and Co.’s ghosts of blockbusters past are soaring in China—prompting the drugmaker to pour money into emerging markets in an attempt to prop up revenue.
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Vanderbilt rejected by high court on Cialis patents

January 24, 2011
Bloomberg News
Supreme Court justices on Monday left intact a ruling throwing out a lawsuit pressed by the Nashville, Tenn., university against Eli Lilly's Icos subsidiary.
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Eli Lilly puts faith in drug pipeline

December 24, 2010
J.K. Wall
Eli Lilly and Co. started to tip over its massive “patent cliff” this year, yet announced little publicly that will significantly soften its inevitable sales plunge.
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Hillenbrand wins ban of knockoff coffins from Mexico

December 14, 2010
Bloomberg News
The U.S. International Trade Commission said Monday that Ataudes Aguilares will be barred from bringing in caskets with attached memorabilia compartments, which Batesville-based Hillenbrand has patented.
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Phase 10 inventor folds in dispute over top-selling card game

November 22, 2010
Cory Schouten
The inventor of the world's second-best-selling card game has settled a lawsuit with Fundex Games, the Plainfield company that markets and distributes Phase 10.
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Lilly scores series of small victories

November 17, 2010
J.K. Wall
The Indianapolis-based drugmaker finally won FDA approval for its antidepressant Cymbalta to treat chronic pain and fended off a patent challenge to rising-star cancer drug Alimta, but got a ratings downgrade on its debt.
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Court upholds Lilly patent on cancer drug Alimta

November 16, 2010
 IBJ Staff and Associated Press
A U.S. District Court judge on Monday upheld Eli Lilly and Co.’s patent on the cancer drug Alimta, protecting the compound until July 2016. It was a welcome win after a difficult few months for Indianapolis-based Lilly, which is facing a wave of patent expirations in coming years.
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Appeals court rejects Lilly over Gemzar patent

November 1, 2010
 IBJ Staff and Bloomberg News
Without an appeal, generic drugs are now poised to wipe away most of Lilly's $750 million in annual U.S. revenue from Gemzar.
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