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Healthcare

Dora Talvard

Transfer of value: amendments to the French “anti-gift” provisions by the draft Health Act

The French so-called “anti-gift” provisions strictly frame the conditions under which companies...

July 2, 2019

2 min read

Healthcare

Niels Lutzhoeft

Ben King

Investing in the future of cannabis in the UK – lessons from the German model

The excitement around the potential for the UK cannabis market – medicinal and nutritional – to continue...

June 4, 2019

27 min read

Healthcare

Domien Op de Beeck

Charlotte Haine

Manufacturing and stockpiling waiver set to limit rights of holders of SPCs for medicines

On 17 April 2019, the European Parliament approved, by a large majority, an amendment of the Regulation...

May 8, 2019

2 min read

Healthcare

Elizabeth Wright

Jennifer Jones

Supreme Court holds Dosage Regime Patent Obvious

Today in Actavis v ICOS the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that the ICOS patent for a Tadalafil...

March 27, 2019

4 min read

Biotech

Laurence Clot

Alexandre Polak

New 2019 French Patent/Software box regime: taxation at a reduced rate of 10%

A new preferential taxation regime for income generated by industrial property and software is applicable...

February 7, 2019

1 min read

Pharmaceuticals

Kerstin Otto

German Federal Patent Court denies request for preliminary grant of a compulsory license – Where do we go from here?

As recently as 2016 the German Federal Patent Court handed down the landmark decision on Isentress®...

February 7, 2019

6 min read

Healthcare

Brona Heenan

“Effective enforcement of EU competition rules in the pharmaceutical law remains a matter of high priority…”

So notes the Commission's report on competition enforcement in the pharmaceutical sector (2009-2017)...

February 5, 2019

4 min read

Pharmaceuticals

Niels Lutzhoeft

Christoph Hendel

Between pharma, agriculture and narcotics: The rise of medical Cannabis in a controversial emerging regulatory environment

Since liberalisation at the beginning of 2017, industrial and medical Cannabis have experienced a boom...

December 12, 2018

3 min read

Evelina Marchesoni

Pemetrexed: Italian Court reversed the first instance decision ordering a PI on the basis of Eli Lilly’s patent

In the case Fresenius Kabi Oncology Plc and other v Eli Lilly and Company and other, by decision...

December 11, 2018

4 min read

Pharmaceuticals

Neil Jenkins

Audrey Horton

Supreme Court defines plausibility in the context of sufficiency

A majority postulates a new "outward presentation test" to deal with the infringement of second medical...

November 15, 2018

10 min read