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How Lume Whole Body Deodorant Was Inspired by a Genetic Disease

PLOS: DNA Science

Among the barrage of drug ads for cancer, diabetes, weight loss and more are those for Lume , a “doctor-developed whole body deodorant.” ” The Patent Trail Rather than relying on social media, company websites, and testimonials, I consulted the Patent and Trademark database to reconstruct the story of invention.

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Another RICOdiculous Decision

Drug & Device Law

2022) (many other cases recognize this problem with class actions). Second, as for superiority, PATDC82 II admitted that a class trial would face “enormous logistical hurdles,” but nonetheless found a nationwide class action “superior.” Thus, “[o]ne supposed ‘nightmare’ trial is preferable to many hundreds of shorter ones.”

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So Long to All that Junk

Drug & Device Law

Forward is more fun, as we scan a schedule full of motions, MDL decision-trees, and trials in, er, challenging jurisdictions. Enterprising plaintiff lawyers are exploiting the many residents of drug and device supply chains to gin up personal jurisdiction by finding local players (raw material suppliers, clinical trials, etc.)

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New York Court of Appeals Holds that Plaintiff Did Not Prove Causation in Talc/Asbestos Mesothelioma Case

Drug & Device Law

2022 WL 1217464 (Ct. 26, 2022), New York’s highest court reversed an asbestos jury’s verdict for the plaintiff, holding that the plaintiff’s experts had not adduced sufficient proof that the defendant’s product caused the plaintiff’s decedent’s fatal mesothelioma. Nemeth , 2022 WL 1217464 at *1. We will keep you posted.

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Fla. Ct. of Appeal Refuses to Force Mayo Clinic to Treat Covid Patient with Ivermectin, etc.

Drug & Device Law

Mayo Clinic , 2022 Fla. 27, 2022), and its reasoning is crystalline and straightforward. Against the authority of the Mayo Clinic and other reputable sources, the plaintiffs relied on the testimony of a single doctor. The doctor testifying for the plaintiffs was licensed in Florida, but with no board certifications.

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Interesting Pelvic Mesh Due Process Certiorari Petition

Drug & Device Law

2022 WL 3147194 (C.D. Ultimately, the thumb that Freeman put on the scale didn’t matter, because the defendant won at trial despite that handicap. 2022), review denied (Cal. July 13, 2022). The Superior Court here “credited testimony from doctors who never implanted mesh, or who did so outside the state of California.”

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The BFDs – The Ten Best Prescription Drug/Medical Device Decisions of 2023

Drug & Device Law

2023) (remote trial testimony cannot be compelled beyond Rule 45’s 100-mile limit on subpoenas) ( here ); Carson v. They excluded bogus expert testimony under Fed. As a matter of science, the purported link was imaginary, as discussed at great length in one of the many excellent Zantac ( 2022+4 ) MDL opinions.