ArticleAdministrative Court (Re-)Confirms CMA's Right To Raid Domestic PremisesIspoke to GCR on 22 April [full article behind paywall] about the Administrative Court judgment on the CMA's appeal of a judgment...United KingdomAntitrust/Competition LawBristows LLP
ArticleCLIP Of The Month: Is Music Streaming A Level Playing Field?This month's CLIP is an article on Competition Policy International relating to competition in music streaming. The BPI has estimated that streaming now accounts for some 80% of UK music consumption ...United KingdomAntitrust/Competition LawBristows LLP
ArticleNew Year, New CMA Dominance Investigation…The project is said to have a roughly two-year time frame, over which period Google plans to devise alternative technical solutions.United KingdomAntitrust/Competition LawBristows LLP
VideoPodcast: An Introduction To Patent Settlement Agreements And Pay-for-delayToday we kick off our new podcast series, On The Pulse: Talks, in which we will be exploring the competition law issues associated with patent settlement agreements.United KingdomAntitrust/Competition LawBristows LLP
ArticlePodcast: Identifying The Relevant Market & How To Tell If Patentees And Potential Infringers Are CompetitorsIdentifying the relevant market & how to tell if patentees and potential infringers are competitors.United KingdomAntitrust/Competition LawBristows LLP
ArticleUpdated CMA Merger Guidance As NSI Act Comes Into ForceThe CMA has now published updated merger guidance to reflect the commencement of the new NSI regime. The revised guidance details the new national security regime as a regulatory process which applies to merging parties...United KingdomAntitrust/Competition LawBristows LLP
ArticleFRAUD - Lifting The Corporate VeilReflecting the increasing volume of fraud cases before the English court, there have been a plethora of significant rulings handed down during the course of this year. United KingdomCorporate/Commercial LawBristows LLP
ArticleCLIP Of The Month: Safeguarding Pro-Competitive Collaborations In The Life Sciences SectorThis month's CLIP is a column by Andrew C. Finch & Stefan Geirhofer entitled ‘Features of Procompetitive Collaborations in the Life Sciences' which considers the potential antitrust risk...United KingdomFood, Drugs, Healthcare, Life SciencesBristows LLP
ArticleHow Is AI Used In The Context Of Medical Devices?Artificial Intelligence refers to the application of a broad range of computing techniques, from neural networks to machine learning, which are designed to mimic human behaviour.United KingdomFood, Drugs, Healthcare, Life SciencesBristows LLP
ArticleLawfully Running A Red Light: Aneuploidy TestingWhat legal implications should be considered with the HFEA's statement on the use of preimplantation genetic testing?United KingdomFood, Drugs, Healthcare, Life SciencesBristows LLP
ArticleMDCG Releases Guidance On Classification Rules For IVDsThe European Commission's Medical Device Coordination Group (MDCG) recently published its guidance on the classification of in vitro diagnostics (IVDs) under the In Vitro Diagnostic Regulation (IVDR) (EU) 2017/746.United KingdomFood, Drugs, Healthcare, Life SciencesBristows LLP
ArticleMedTech Europe Urges European Commission To Delay Implementation Of IVDRMedTech Europe, the trade association representing the medical technology industries, has reiterated calls for the EU to delay the implementation of the In Vitro Diagnostics Regulation (IVDR) (EU) (2017/746).United KingdomFood, Drugs, Healthcare, Life SciencesBristows LLP
ArticleReflections On CAT's Prochlorperazine Judgment (And Other Pharma Cases That Got Away...)Some five and a half years after the CMA's October 2017 dawn raids on a host of UK generics-focussed pharmaceutical companies, the CAT has now handed down judgment in the last of the appeals.United KingdomFood, Drugs, Healthcare, Life SciencesBristows LLP
ArticleUK National Investment And Security Bill Receives Royal AssentThe UK National Security and Investment Bill was granted royal assent on 29 April, in a move that will transform the UK foreign direct investment regime.United KingdomGovernment, Public SectorBristows LLP
ArticleDa Vinci Code Appeal DismissedThis expected decision that Dan Brown had not plagiarised continues the recent line of unsuccessful copyright infringement cases over the expression of general ideas.United KingdomIntellectual PropertyBristows LLP
ArticleEU Intellectual Property Office Declares Invalid Banksy's EU Trade Mark Representing His Flower Thrower ArtworkIn an article first published on World Trademark Review, Simon Clark and Lucie Fortune review the EU IPO decision that Banksy's trade mark registration for his iconic Flower Thrower artwork was filed in bad faith.United KingdomIntellectual PropertyBristows LLP
ArticleShould Agencies Focus On The Development Of Private Permissioned Blockchains?There is no doubt that blockchain technology has an exciting future with many potential uses. United KingdomTechnologyBristows LLP
ArticleCLIP Of The Month: Joint Technology Competition Policy DialogueThis month's CLIP is a recent joint statement by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and US President Joe Biden from the US-EU Summit in Brussels on 15 June 2021, ...WorldwideAntitrust/Competition LawBristows LLP
ArticleWhat's The Wait? – Number Of MDR And IVDR Notified Bodies Remains Stubbornly LowWe have previously written at length about the continuing regulatory bottlenecks caused by the low numbers of notified bodies for the EU's Medical Device Regulation and In Vitro Diagnostic Medical Devices Regulation.European UnionFood, Drugs, Healthcare, Life SciencesBristows LLP
ArticleDon't Mess With The NHS: CMA Issues £35m Fine For Pay-for-delay Agreements Concerning Anti-nausea DrugFrom June 2013 to July 2018, Alliance appointed Focus as distributor of its 3mg prochlorperazine dissolvable tablets.United KingdomAntitrust/Competition LawBristows LLP