Black Diamond Bought a Licence Instead of a Ruling, and Six Patents Stay Untested
These were not patents on a drug. They were patents on the methods used to find one, and Black Diamond has agreed to pay rather than test them.
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Freenome’s Lung Test Is Indicated for People Who Never Show Up
Freenome defined its population by the failure of the existing pathway, not by anything measurable in the patient. That is the decision worth reading.
No Product Is Approved for Hernia Prevention. BD Is Spending Five Years to Change That.
BD is not testing a product against a competitor. It is testing whether an indication can be brought into existence, with no label, code or precedent.
Logical Reasoning Survived Severe Aphasia, and Recruited No Language Regions in Healthy Brains
Two patients with severe aphasia solved formal logic problems as well as controls. The language network stayed quiet through both reasoning types.
FastWave’s Pivotal Trial Cannot Measure the Thing FastWave Is Selling
Everything FastWave sells is comparative. The word its chief executive used is clearance, and clearance means substantially equivalent.
ITM’s Complete Response Letter Names No Clinical Concern. It Names a Third-Party Facility.
COMPETE hit its endpoint and is published in The Lancet. The FDA did not touch any of it. What stopped the approval is a facility ITM does not own.
DuPont Spun Chemours Off in 2015. Eleven Years On, Both Are Named in the Same Order.
QuickCI read/Legal & Policy/Medtech DuPont Spun Chemours Off in 2015. Eleven Years On, Both Are Named in the Same Order. Athithi Verma· 11 August 2026· 3 min read· Synopulse Chief Judge Renée Marie Bumb of the US District Court for New Jersey approved settlements worth more than $2.5 billion on 7 August 2026, resolving claims … Read more
MoonLake Says IZAR-1 Met Every Endpoint and Will Not Show You the Placebo Arm
MoonLake disclosed 42.1% ACR50 and withheld the placebo arm. An absolute response rate without a comparator is a number, not a result.
Teledyne Put Its Antitrust Argument in the Press Release, Product by Product
Mehrabian spent a paragraph itemising exactly how the two businesses do not overlap. Executives do that when a competition authority is reading.
Jazz Paid $820 Million Upfront for a Phase 1b/2a Because the FDA Pathway Came With It
QuickDeal read/Rare Diseases/Small Molecule Jazz Paid $820 Million Upfront for a Phase 1b/2a Because the FDA Pathway Came With It Athithi Verma· 11 August 2026· 3 min read· Synopulse Jazz Pharmaceuticals will acquire privately held Actio Biosciences for $820 million upfront plus up to $500 million in approval and sales milestones, a maximum of $1.32 … Read more