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On 21 October 2024, the UK Government laid before Parliament the draft statutory instrument setting out proposed new post-market surveillance (PMS)...

Not yet! The UK Court of Appeal has recently held that if yoghurt described in the UK as Greek has not been made in Greece, then it has been misrepresented.

Following widespread litigation over Halozyme's SPC families for Herceptin Hylecta and MabThera, Europe's highest court received a critical referral addressing whether recombinant human hyaluronidase can be considered an "active ingredient" despite its classification as an excipient in marketing authorisation documents. Advocate General Emiliou has now published a significant legal opinion proposing that substances expressly designated as excipients cannot be regarded as active ingredients for SPC purposes.

It's great to see IP, and in particular trade marks, making the national news and being talked about on social media, especially in Food & Drink, a sector we know and love so well.

In Ball v First Essex Buses Limited, a bus driver who was dismissed after testing positive for cocaine has won compensation of almost £40,000 at an employment tribunal.

On 13 October the European Commission (EC) announced a new package of proposals relating to the implementation of the Northern Ireland Protocol.

This is a follow up to our previous posts relating to the European Medicines Agency's (EMA) various policies on access to documents.

On December 15, 2017, the European Medicines Agency's (EMA), Coordination Group for Mutual Recognition and Decentralised Procedures – Human (CMDh) ...

We recently published an alert in relation to the European Commission's legislative proposals to replace the current EU regulatory framework for all medicines (including those for rare diseases and for children).

The Commission aims to have the Regulation in place by 2019.

More than 75% of consumers globally expect lower or flat personal spending in 2025 – 31% expect to spend less, 47% aim for flat spending

An innovator disrupting inefficient food systems, Anna Hammond has created a new model for eliminating waste and tackling food insecurity.

How does the UK feel about cannabis in 2023? There are a few answers to this question, depending on the perspective of those questioned.

The consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry faces a critical 11% decline in U.S. unit volumes, driven by rising prices, shifting consumer preferences, and economic pressures. To address this, companies must reassess brand strategies, innovate, and improve operational efficiency.

This update focuses on: the European Commission's new strategy for life sciences; the latest on tariffs on pharmaceutical imports; Microsoft introduces it's new AI diagnostic tool...

Protein-molecule interactions lie at the heart of many biological processes. Some of these molecules, such as ligands or drugs typically in nanometre scale, bind to proteins to modulate their activity.

Feeding the world is getting trickier. The sharp rises in the cost of living that followed the Covid-19 crisis have only been exacerbated by the war in Ukraine, known as the breadbasket of Europe.