On February 9, 2025, I was watching Super Bowl LIX. On came a commercial by Him & Hers offering to deliver weight loss medications to your door. And they looked a lot like Ozempic® and Wegovy®. Being a pharma patent geek watching with another pharma patent geek, we stopped talking about using MALDI-TOF in infringement analyses and started asking a question that Novo Nordisk single-handedly made vogue last week. Why don’t compounders run afoul of patent law all the time? Or do they?

Abu Dhabi Investment Council has filed a complaint against Energy & Minerals Group over a GP-led sale of a 30% stake in Ascent Resources, arguing it would harm limited partners and disproportionately benefit EMG insiders while allowing the fund manager to unjustly reset profit-sharing terms.

The Federal Circuit’s recent decisions have shifted the standards for induced infringement, now considering not just a generic drug's label, but also its marketing practices. This has led to a Supreme Court inquiry on whether a fully carved-out generic label can still encourage infringement.