By Sherri Oslick -- About Court Report: Each week we will report briefly on recently filed biotech and pharma cases. Pfizer Inc., et al.v. Mylan Inc. et al. 1:10-cv-06463; filed August 20, 2010 in the Southern District of New York • Plaintiffs: Pfizer Inc.; Pfizer Products Inc.; C.P. Pharmaceuticals ...

The information leaked to EurActiv remains the main basis for the public discussion about the communication ‘revolution’ planned by commissioner Viviane Reding for the European Commission, but the information is far from complete. The College of commissioners has discussed Reding’s communication pr ...

Rapid advances in technology are nothing new; what is new in recent decades is rapid advances in the kinds of technology that require intellectual skills. This has increased the returns to people who have high IQs and good technical education. In addition, fulfilling Max Weber’s prediction that mo ...

Mac Clayton offers this perspective on KQED radio: In 1951, before Brown v. Board of Education and before Martin Luther King gave voice to his dream, my grandfather, Philip Davidson, integrated the University of Louisville. As president, he merged a...

Das Auslegerschild der Stadtbücherei Landshut in der Steckengasse 309 ist entwendet worden. [via Wochenblatt]

Okay Marty, per your email to Kelly, have it Your Way: "Bud tried to explain to me that Jon Sistare should not be held accountable for making false statements in that document he signed and took an oath to because it was drafted by his attorney. I found that to be outrageous and asked him to recons ...

“Das Fernsehen ist ein Babysitter. Das Internet ist ein betrunkener Bibliothekar, der nicht aufhört will zu reden!” [via Flickr]

In an April 29, 2010 complaint against JG Wentworth posted on complaintsboard.com, a South Addiosn , Maine woman descirbes the horror show that a woman with closed head injury allegedly suffered suffered at the hands of JG Wentworth in a chilling warning to state and federal governmental regulators. ...

What’s in a name? that which we call a rose, By any other name would smell as sweet; (William Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet, Act II, Scene ii) As we know, the two young lovers died, so perhaps a name is not as innocuous as they wanted to believe. One to underline the symbolic value of a name is th ...

[JURIST] Branch 26 of the Revolutionary Court of Iran [GlobaLex backgrounder] on Saturday concluded the one-day trial of Shiva Nazar Ahari, a journalist arrested following the 2009 presidential election [JURIST news archive]. During the Tehran trial, conducted by head judge Pyrbasy, Ahari faced char ...