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TGA to implement alert system for new ARTG registrations

6 August 2010

The TGA plans to implement a daily alert system to show new registrations on the ARTG. The move is the result of complaints made to the TGA by Medicines Australia in relation to originators not receiving notice when generic versions of their pharmaceutical products become registered.

The TGA has said that the system will be up and running within the next 2 months and is intended to list all registrations achieved.

Branched meanings: Lexicography of ‘branched alkyl’ decides Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine patent dispute

1 July 2025

By Suzy Madar, Emily King

The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) recently decided that Moderna’s mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccine, SPIKEVAX®, did not infringe Alnylam’s patents because the cationic lipid used in the vaccine, SM-102, was not a cationic lipid with a ‘branched alkyl’ group.[1] The case turned on the proper construction of ‘branched alkyl’.

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