MBHB Partner Kevin Noonan a Featured Presenter at ACI’s 2nd Advanced Summit on Life Sciences Patents

MBHB partner Dr. Kevin Noonan is a featured presenter at the American Conference Institute’s 2nd Advanced Summit on Life Sciences Patents set for Feb. 23-24, 2016 in New York City.

Details for Dr. Noonan’s presentation are as follows:

Tuesday, February 23 – 9:30-10:30 a.m. ET

The Year of the Biosimilar: Refining Current Life Sciences Patent Strategies and Formulating a Multi-Faceted Approach for Innovators and Biosimilars Manufacturers

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  Analyzing which biologics may be ripe for a biosimilar including monoclonal antibodies, therapeutic proteins, and vaccines going off patent soon


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  Crafting a winning biologic patenting strategy: Devising claim drafting methods for and against biosimilars
  
  
  
  
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    Strategies to head off biosimilar development
  
  
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    Working around narrowly written biopharmaceutical patents
  
  
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    Unique challenges for process patents
  
  
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    Claiming existing biologics broadly enough to cover biosimilars


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  Analyzing how current IP case law will shape claiming and litigating biosimilars: considerations for the safe harbor, indefiniteness, and natural products


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  Determining what may constitute a “biobetter” and choosing whether to seek pure “biosimilarity” or an improved “biobetters” product or both


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  Updates on the first BPCIA cases and the opting-in/opting-out debate: Sandoz v. Amgen and Janssen v. Celltrion

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