MoFo Life Sciences

January 17, 2023 - Bioinformatics, Litigation, United States, Data Analytics
Privacy Litigation 2022 Year in Review: Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA)
By: Tiffany Cheung
In 2022, Illinois’s Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) litigation was bustling. Defendants in BIPA cases ranged from pharmacies, insurance companies, and social media platforms to software companies, schools, and airlines. Even with the steady stream of opinions in 2022, key questions about BIPA’s scope
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January 13, 2022 - United States, Digital Health, Healthcare, Data Analytics, Intellectual Property, Bioinformatics
Bioinformatics Patents – Subject Matter Eligibility in 2022
By: Jean Nguyen
The increasing presence of data-driven solutions in the healthcare and life sciences sector is apparent from the rise in numbers of patents and patent applications. The number of published bioinformatics patents and patent applications in the last decade has nearly doubled. Bioinformatics patents face
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December 17, 2020 - COVID-19, Biotech, European Union, Pharma, Data Analytics, Intellectual Property
The European Commission’s New Pharmaceutical Strategy for Europe
By: Wolfgang Schönig
Nina Schäfer and Jin Ito contributed to this article. On November 25, 2020, the European Commission (the “Commission”) published its “ Pharmaceutical Strategy for Europe ” which outlines the Commission’s multi-year vision for a more patient-centered pharmaceutical system. The strategy aims to achieve various
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September 22, 2020 - Licensing + Commercial, United States, FDA, Startup, Data Analytics, Intellectual Property
GSAS Harvard Biotech Club and Morrison & Foerster’s Patent Course Off to a Roaring Start!
By: Michael Ward Ph.D., Matthew Karlyn, Janet Xiao, Matthew A. Chivvis, Jie Zhou, Anna Yuan and Jillian A. Pesin-Fulop
More than 120 life sciences graduate students, post-docs and industry professionals attended the first class of a six part Patent Law Course offered by Morrison & Foerster and the GSAS Harvard Biotech Club on September 16, 2020. The Harvard Biotech Club is a student
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December 19, 2019 - AI + Robotics, Global, Data Analytics, Intellectual Property
Global IP Policy in the Age of AI
By: Karen G Potter
Between 2013 and 2016, the number of Artificial Intelligence (AI) related patent applications in the life sciences and medical sciences grew by about 40% * , and, with continuing advances in technology, has likely increased substantially since 2016. Although this finding may not come
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October 30, 2019 - AI + Robotics, Medical Devices + Diagnostics, Data Analytics, Asia
Reflecting on the Challenges and Opportunities of Data at the Hitachi Social Innovation Forum 2019
Are companies keeping up with technological advances, and what are they doing specifically to contribute to society and provide value? What are the future prospects, and what kind of opportunities are being created for progress, including in the digital and scientific arenas? As Japanese
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September 19, 2019 - AI + Robotics, United States, FDA, Product Liability + Class Action, Pharma, Regulatory, Data Analytics
Artificial Intelligence and Pharma
Bethany Hills authored an article for PHARMAnetwork , covering how the pharmaceutical industry has been adopting artificial intelligence and machine learning. Bethany discusses that the pharmaceutical sector has been one of the more robust areas where private partnerships with artificial intelligence-based technology companies have
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August 28, 2019 - AI + Robotics, United States, Regulatory, Data Analytics, Intellectual Property
AI Patent Policy – Calling all Life Sciences Practitioners
By: Anna Yuan and Karen G Potter
In the life sciences, artificial intelligence (AI) may be facilitating a sea change in how diseases are diagnosed, prognosed, and treated, and even how therapies are discovered and produced. Indeed, it is possible for AI to provide insights into disease and treatment that could
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June 04, 2019 - AI + Robotics, United States, Biotech, Pharma, Data Analytics
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning: Real-world applications
With Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) rapidly becoming significant players in multiple areas of science and technology, it came as no surprise to witness a full house for Athena’s program “Taking Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) from Concept to Application,”
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May 28, 2019 - AI + Robotics, Data Analytics
AI And Life Sciences – A New Wave Of Innovation
By: Jean Nguyen
Artificial intelligence and life sciences – the combination of the two is creating a new wave of innovation. With AI, we now have the power to analyze massive amounts of data for drug discovery, medical diagnosis, biotechnology, clinical trials, personalized medicine, electronic health records,
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