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The EPO Board of Appeal (“BoA”) recently rejected a patent application relating to pig-human chimeras, concluding that the invention was...
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The European Medicines Agency (EMA) and the Heads of Medicines Agencies (HMA) have announced a significant update to their guidance on...
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Companies in the life sciences sector and its sub-sectors, including pharmaceuticals, medical devices, diagnostics and services, are...
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In recent decades, venture capital (VC) has played an increasingly important role in the high-risk and high-reward life sciences sector....
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On 18 July 2024 President Von der Leyen laid down the path for the next European Commission in her Political Guidelines for the next...
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The UK life sciences industry takes centre-stage in two of the new Labour government’s “Five Missions For National Renewal”: economic...
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In May 2024, the Dutch government published the draft bill for the new Cybersecurity Act (Cyberbeveiligingswet – “CSA”) for consultation...
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On April 10, 2024, the European Parliament voted to adopt a revised version of the European Commission’s proposed reforms to...
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On June 6, 2024, the Advocate General (AG) at the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) delivered an opinion in case C-248/23...
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The SoHO proposal introduces the procedure for obtaining an authorisation for SoHO preparations by the introduction of an EU-wide...
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Back in May 2016, the scientific publication Nature surveyed over 1,500 researchers to find out how reproducible their work was. This...
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Telemedicine has been available to healthcare providers for several years. However, it was not until quite recently that the field of...
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The latest edition of the Legal 500: Pharmaceutical Advertising Comparative Guide is now online. The aim of this guide is to provide its...
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Approximately twenty years ago, the regulation of Substances of Human Origin (“SHO”) in Europe was reshaped by the introduction of the...
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Apart from the Unified Patent Court Agreement and a large body of further treaties, regulations, directives and laws governing the...
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Early this year it became clear that the long-pending reform of the European patent system is finally coming to fruition. With the...