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The egg shortage has grocers in a precarious position. Thus far, many have reacted to soaring egg prices by passing cost increases through to their customers...

On 29 July 2020, The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) announced it has partnered with the National Fire Chiefs Council (NFCC), Fire and Rescue Services and...

As Brexit talks intensify, bio/pharma companies from both the UK and EU need to consider and aim to prepare for all scenarios.

A major review published by the World Health Organisation threw the spotlight once again on the issue of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and the ongoing misuse of antibiotics around the world.

When you hear the term ‘smart cities' you may initially picture the utopian metropolises of your favourite sci-fi epic. However, smart cities are much further from fiction and much closer...

Following the recent Court of Appeal decision finding in favour of Thatchers Cider that Aldi had infringed their Trade Mark, I wanted to take a wider look at some past IP...

Marks & Spencer, the UK's biggest fashion retailer, has dismissed its Clothing, Home and Beauty Director, Jill McDonald, after a series of ill-thought out and executed decisions.

An in-house pharmacy can provide a convenient facility for patients and useful income stream for the doctors and the pharmacist.

With a focus on increasing business investment and growing industries of the future, the UK's Industrial Strategy released this week sets out its approach to driving long-term growth. Life sciences is identified...

"For me, it was simply a case of… you have to do this," says Dr Bea Bakshi. While working long hours in the NHS – first as a hospital doctor and later as a GP – she developed game-changing...

Last month's Cannabis Europa conference in London was a showcase for the increasingly well-heeled global cannabis industry, and a signal of its keen interest in the developing commercial, regulatory...

In the current climate of austerity, healthcare providers may be seeking ways to contain costs of treatment.

As the English and Welsh wine industry continues to boom, the incentive for third parties to copy, counterfeit and infringe increases exponentially."

Just over 3 months after we reported a referral from the Finnish Market Court concerning Article 3(c) for combination products (see our news item, here), the Irish Supreme Court has now made its own, similar referral.

By 2025, it is estimated that a quarter of British consumers will be vegan or vegetarian and just under half will identify as flexitarian.

The end of 2023 featured two significant judgments concerning AI inventions: (i) a highly awaited decision from the Supreme Court in Thaler on the ability of AI systems...

The question of parallel importation of pharmaceutical products has recently been considered by the Chancery Division of the UK's High Court in the case of Flynn Pharma Limited v Drugsrus Limited and Others.

The UK Patents Court has upheld the validity of Novartis' patent and SPC protecting Entresto, its blockbuster heart failure treatment combining valsartan and sacubitril.