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Holland & Barrett has firmly established its place as the UK's leading retailer of vitamins, minerals and herbal supplements.

SeaGrown is a pioneering offshore kelp farming company based in Scarborough, and England's first large-scale commercial seaweed farm. A 2024 Earthshot Prize nominee...

By now, it is likely that most people have heard about the ongoing opioid crisis in the US, as barely a day goes by without some form of media coverage.

The Family Drug and Alcohol Court (FDAC) is a specialist court designed to support parents involved in care proceedings due to substance misuse.

The tastes of food and drink consumers are continuing to change. People are more health conscious. They are looking for more sustainable options.

In the late 1970s, Earth, Wind & Fire released one of their biggest hits – September – with an opening line that has become an internet meme and is widely recognised around the world.

In the past 6 months a number of very interesting decisions were handed down by different European courts and IP offices which we would like to draw your attention to.

As reported by our colleague Joanne Meredith in her recent post (click here to read), Phase One of the EU's "Design Reform Package" became effective on 1 May 2025...

Patenting polymorphs of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) is challenging due to EPO's strict inventive step criteria. To overcome this, applicants can demonstrate unexpected beneficial properties, show departures from routine screening, provide additional comparative data, and avoid overly broad claims...

An orphan drug, or orphan medicinal product, is a medicine that is developed to treat a rare disease, defined as a disease affecting a relatively small number of people as a proportion of the population.

The "Bolar exemption" is an exception to the exclusive right granted by a patent, permitting use of patented products in experiments for the purpose of obtaining regulatory approval for medicines.

Margin improvement and cost reduction efforts are common practice across many sectors of the economy but have not been typically part of the financial performance playbook among distillers and wine producers, particularly in the premium segment.

The recent COVID-19 pandemic has brought into sharp focus the impact obesity can have on individuals' health leading to increased risks of developing type 2 diabetes, heart disease, fatty liver disease and a number of cancers.

The 2024 UK Food Crime Strategic Assessment highlights rising threats from insider knowledge abuse, economic pressures, and global disruptions, emphasizing the need for improved detection, multi-agency collaboration, and legislative changes.

A patent for a drug called fluvastatin, used to reduce cholesterol, has been found to be invalid by the High Court on the grounds of obviousness.

The MHRA’s proposed rare disease therapies regulatory framework (“the Proposed Framework”) represents an ambitious attempt to redesign medicines regulation around the realities of rare disease development.

The European Commission (EC) has published a report providing an overview of the enforcement of EU antitrust and merger rules by the EC and EU national...

The Neurim CJEU decision of July 2012 has arguably caused an equal amount of excitement and controversy.