Warren has requested that the United States Patent and Trademark Office investigate Keytruda from Merck.

Senator Elizabeth Warren of the United States recently wrote to the head of the United States Patent and Trademark Office to express her concern that continued efforts to patent Merck & Co.'s (MRK.N) blockbuster cancer treatment Keytruda may constitute an abuse of the patent system.

US PRESIDENT BIDEN TO PURCHASE ANOTHER 100 MILLION DOSES OF JOHNSON & JOHNSON COVID-19 VACCINE

Highlights

• The order of vaccines allows the president to plan for the future and the latter part of the year said White House senior adviser Andy Slavitt during a briefing on Wednesday

• President Biden in the last week had said that the country would have enough C...

KENNETH FRAZIER RESIGNS AS CEO OF PHARMA COMPANY MERCK & CO

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• Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Kenneth Frazier has decided to step down from his post at the end of June and will be replaced by the Chief Financial Officer Robert Davis

• The drugmaker said Frazier, 66, will continue to serve on its board as executive ch...

SAMSUNG BIOLOGICS BROADENS HORIZONS WITH INSTALLATION BASE IN SAN FRANCISCO

• Samsung Biologics has opened its first overseas installation in San Francisco as part of the contract policy and manufacturing organization's efforts to provide an unparalleled service network to more than 2,500 life science and biotechnology firms in the city.
• Also at the ...

Commercial OLED-printed inkjet displays will arrive in 2 years: Q&A with Kai Beckmann, CEO of performance materials at Merck

At the recently concluded CES 2020, Merck presented its products and innovations, concentrating on four main aspects-smart cities, immersive displays, in-memory computing, and AI-optimized quantum computing.

Kai Beckmann, member of Merck's Executive Board and CEO of Performance Mate...