A judge has approved a $2.5 million penalty against two hearing aid retailers in the consumer regulator’s case alleging the companies targeted vulnerable pensioners with misleading newspaper ads.
Generic Health has shaved two percent off the $25 million damages awarded pharmaceutical giant Bayer in a patent infringement case over Bayer’s blockbuster oral contraceptive, Yasmin, but the discount is a far cry from the 15 percent it sought on appeal.
Generic drug maker Alphapharm has lost another bid for documents from Sanofi-Aventis in advance of a hearing on Sanofi’s interlocutory application seeking to block the generic drug maker from listing its injector pen on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme.
Wyeth must pay a group of generic drug companies for the harm they suffered after the drug maker won interlocutory injunctions blocking their plans to market an extended release generic version of anti-depressant Effexor, in a ruling likely to have a chilling effect on interlocutory injunction grants in pharmaceutical patent cases.
The Australian Workers Union has called on the Federal Court to toss AstraZeneca’s challenge to a decision that workers are guaranteed 10 days’ sick leave regardless of how long their working day is.
The judge overseeing a class action against American Medical Systems over allegedly defective pelvic mesh implants has rejected the medical device maker’s bid to alter the start date for a sub-group of class members.
Public hospital operators in NSW have been hit with a class action over a practice of forcing non-resident patients ineligible for Medicare cards to find Australian citizens to be guarantors before they are treated.
Generic drug company Apotex has settled a patent infringement case brought by global pharmaceutical giant Lundbeck over its blockbuster antidepressant Lexapro.
The High Court has dismissed the ACCC’s bid to appeal a Full Federal Court decision upholding a ruling that drug giant Pfizer did not misuse its market power in the months leading up to the expiration of the patent for its blockbuster cholesterol drug Lipitor.
AFT Pharmaceuticals breached the consumer laws with misleading ads over the strength of its painkiller Maxigesic, a judge has found, siding with rival drug maker Reckitt Benckiser.