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Recent Updates On Reform Of UK Clinical Trial Landscape

On 11 April 2025, the MHRA announced that the much anticipated changes to the clinical trial rules in the UK, the Medicines for Human Use (Clinical Trials) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (the new Regulations)...

United Kingdom Healthcare

AP

Arnold & Porter

Understanding The Latest OPG Guidance On Family Care Payments

Latest OPG guidance on family care payments: informal support, commercial rates, affordability, and evidence requirements.

United Kingdom Healthcare

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Wrigleys Solicitors

Cacao-free Chocolate - A Taste Of The Future?

Just about everyone I know, myself included, loves chocolate, and it's often a feature in our office. The history of this universally popular food goes back centuries, and has gone from being introduced to Europe as food...

United Kingdom Healthcare

MC

Marks & Clerk

Health Data Research Service To Provide Single Point Of Access To NHS Data In The United Kingdom

The U.K. Government has announced the creation of a new U.K-wide Health Data Research Service that will provide a secure single access point to national-scale data sets.

United Kingdom Healthcare

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A&O Shearman

Repeated Failures In Scan Interpretation Is Costing Lives, Ombudsman Warns (9 April 2025)

United Kingdom Healthcare

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Duncan Lewis & Co Solicitors

Insights To Patent Drafting For Food And Beverage Innovations

Worldwide Healthcare

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Boult Wade Tennant

Future R&D Funding In The UK

United Kingdom Healthcare

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Marks & Clerk

A New Approach To Regulation By The MHRA And NICE

United Kingdom Healthcare

AO

A&O Shearman

ABPI Calls For Changes To "Unsustainable" Medicines Pricing Scheme

United Kingdom Healthcare

AP

Arnold & Porter

Is Seaweed The New Wonder Product?

United Kingdom Healthcare

MC

Marks & Clerk

Will Labour's Policy Prescription Create A Stronger UK Life Sciences Sector?

United Kingdom Healthcare

AO

A&O Shearman

Understanding The Social Care 'Doom Loop': Insights From Social Care 360

United Kingdom Healthcare

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Wrigleys Solicitors

What To Know When Selling Your Pharmacy

United Kingdom Healthcare

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Ronald Fletcher Baker

Pharma TM Articles

United Kingdom Healthcare

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Rouse

Future R&D Funding In The UK

United Kingdom Healthcare

MC

Marks & Clerk

Corporate Finance Soundbite: Mergerspresso (Podcast)

United Kingdom Commercial

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Addleshaw Goddard

Navigating The Uncertainty Of Trade Tariffs: A Dispute Resolution Specialist's Perspective

United Kingdom International

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Lewis Silkin

The Truth About UK Self-Sponsorship: What You Need To Know (Video)

United Kingdom Immigration

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WestBridge Business Immigration

Financial Services And Markets Act 2000 (Collective Investment Schemes) (Amendment) Order Greater Clarity On The Legal Position Of Staking

United Kingdom Technology

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Giambrone & Partners

Food and Drugs Law

Tackling Climate And Nature Targets With A Land Use Policy

Farming, housing, habitats and infrastructure are some of the major uses of land across England. The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA) is currently reviewing land use...

United Kingdom Environment

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Hunters

From Certificates To Courts: Litigating Second Medical Use Patents

The dubiety of second medical use patents has not been limited to which further therapeutic treatments qualify for exclusive rights...

United Kingdom IP

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Dennemeyer S.A.

Blueprints For Growth: Perspectives On Life Sciences & Innovation Investments

We, as Socius, want to move away from the traditional out of town science park – we don't believe that is the right approach to attract talent and create a vibrant, living community.

United Kingdom Real Estate

AG

Addleshaw Goddard

ASA Injects An Enforcement Notice Into The Regulatory Diet Of Ads For Named Weight-Loss Drugs. But Will It Tip The Scales Of Compliance?

United Kingdom Media & IT

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Lewis Silkin

Cacao-free Chocolate - A Taste Of The Future?

United Kingdom Healthcare

MC

Marks & Clerk

ASA Injects An Enforcement Notice Into The Regulatory Diet Of Ads For Named Weight-Loss Drugs. But Will It Tip The Scales Of Compliance?

United Kingdom Media & IT

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Global Advertising Lawyers Alliance (GALA)

AstraZeneca Refused Interim Injunction On SPC For Blockbuster Diabetes Treatment Against Glenmark But Swiftly Obtains Permission To Appeal

United Kingdom IP

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A&O Shearman

The HFSS Brand Advertising Saga Continues

United Kingdom Media & IT

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Lewis Silkin

A Guide To Patenting Food Technology Inventions – Part 1

United Kingdom IP

MC

Murgitroyd & Company

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Life Sciences, Biotechnology & Nanotechnology

Recent Updates On Reform Of UK Clinical Trial Landscape

On 11 April 2025, the MHRA announced that the much anticipated changes to the clinical trial rules in the UK, the Medicines for Human Use (Clinical Trials) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (the new Regulations)...

United Kingdom Healthcare

AP

Arnold & Porter

Blueprints For Growth: Perspectives On Life Sciences & Innovation Investments

We, as Socius, want to move away from the traditional out of town science park – we don't believe that is the right approach to attract talent and create a vibrant, living community.

United Kingdom Real Estate

AG

Addleshaw Goddard

Future R&D Funding In The UK

Last week, the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) announced how it will allocate a record of nearly £14 billion in funding in 2025/2026...

United Kingdom Healthcare

MC

Marks & Clerk

Going Down The Bio-Produced Silk Road

United Kingdom IP

MC

Marks & Clerk

A New Approach To Regulation By The MHRA And NICE

United Kingdom Healthcare

AO

A&O Shearman

ABPI Calls For Changes To "Unsustainable" Medicines Pricing Scheme

United Kingdom Healthcare

AP

Arnold & Porter

Is Seaweed The New Wonder Product?

United Kingdom Healthcare

MC

Marks & Clerk

Will Labour's Policy Prescription Create A Stronger UK Life Sciences Sector?

United Kingdom Healthcare

AO

A&O Shearman

What To Know When Selling Your Pharmacy

United Kingdom Healthcare

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Ronald Fletcher Baker

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Healthcare

Understanding The Latest OPG Guidance On Family Care Payments

Latest OPG guidance on family care payments: informal support, commercial rates, affordability, and evidence requirements.

United Kingdom Healthcare

WS

Wrigleys Solicitors

ASA Injects An Enforcement Notice Into The Regulatory Diet Of Ads For Named Weight-Loss Drugs. But Will It Tip The Scales Of Compliance?

The growing popularity of weight-loss drugs has thrown up some interesting issues. On the one hand, they seem to offer at least a partial solution to the burgeoning obesity crisis...

United Kingdom Media & IT

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Lewis Silkin

Health Data Research Service To Provide Single Point Of Access To NHS Data In The United Kingdom

The U.K. Government has announced the creation of a new U.K-wide Health Data Research Service that will provide a secure single access point to national-scale data sets.

United Kingdom Healthcare

AO

A&O Shearman

AstraZeneca Refused Interim Injunction On SPC For Blockbuster Diabetes Treatment Against Glenmark But Swiftly Obtains Permission To Appeal

United Kingdom IP

AO

A&O Shearman

Repeated Failures In Scan Interpretation Is Costing Lives, Ombudsman Warns (9 April 2025)

United Kingdom Healthcare

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Duncan Lewis & Co Solicitors

Future R&D Funding In The UK

United Kingdom Healthcare

MC

Marks & Clerk

New Law On Neonatal Care And Pay Takes Effect April 6th

United Kingdom Employment

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Rothera Bray

3D Printing Of Bioresorbable Materials At Point Of Care

United Kingdom IP

MC

Marks & Clerk

ABPI Calls For Changes To "Unsustainable" Medicines Pricing Scheme

United Kingdom Healthcare

AP

Arnold & Porter

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Patents

Supplementary Protection Certificates: The Court Of Justice Agrees With Potter Clarkson That SPCs With Negative Terms Are Acceptable

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled yesterday in an important case (C-125/10, Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp. v Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt), relating to Supplementary Protection Certificates (SPCs).

European Union IP

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Potter Clarkson

Value Added SPCs - CJEU Clarifies Broad Scope Of Protection

Following hot on the heels of important SPC decisions issued in late 2011, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has now issued a reasoned order in the Novartis v Actavis case (C-442/11).

European Union IP

PC

Potter Clarkson

Supplementary Protection Certificates: The CJEU Issues Its Decision In Two Seminal Cases

On 24 November 2011, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) delivered its judgement in two seminal cases relating to Supplementary Protection Certificates (SPCs).

European Union IP

PC

Potter Clarkson

HGS v Eli Lilly: Bar For Industrial Applicability Of Gene Patents In UK Lowered And Realigned With The EPO

United Kingdom Healthcare

PC

Potter Clarkson

Pharmaceutical Patent Settlement Agreements - European Commission Scrutiny Continues

United Kingdom IP

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CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang

You Never Give Me Your Money: Competition Law, Damages Actions, And The Healthcare Sector

United Kingdom Anti-trust

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Taylor Wessing

Generic Opportunities Arising For The Blockbuster Antihypertensive, Diovan® (Valsartan)

United Kingdom Healthcare

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Generics Web

EU/UK Competition Law Newsletter - February 2011

United Kingdom Anti-trust

ML

McGuireWoods LLP

Reform Of Corporation Tax For Lifesciences Companies - A Chance To Have Your Say

United Kingdom Tax

CC

CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang

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Latest Videos

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Resolving UK/EU Regulatory Disputes (Video)

AP

Arnold & Porter

Episode #1: Hugo Scheckter - Player Care: The Importance Of Mental Health And Wellbeing In Football (Video)

BM

Blaser Mills

J2J Clinical Negligence Webinar: Session 3 – What Do You Need To Prove – Breach Of Duty (Video)

GC

Gatehouse Chambers

Osseointegration For Amputees (Video)

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BLM

Legally Vocal: Patrick Duxbury On His COVID-19 Vaccine Work And 20-Year Career In Life Sciences (Video)

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Gowling WLG

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