We 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.

This month's CLIP is a blog post by Adrian Deuschle covering a decision by the German Federal Supreme Court (Bundesgerichtshof) that found the narrow MFN clauses in Booking.com BV's terms and conditions incompatible with Art 101 TFEU.

From June 2013 to July 2018, Alliance appointed Focus as distributor of its 3mg prochlorperazine dissolvable tablets.

This podcast is accompanied by an animation illustrating the topics covered which you can watch below.

In the fourth episode of our podcast series on patent settlement agreements and competition law, Edwin Bond introduces the concept of restrictions of competition ‘by object' under Art 101 TFEU.

The Companies Act 2006 sees the introduction of many new rules relating to directors. One of the most welcome, from the perspective of those considering taking on a directorship in a company in the life sciences sphere, is a new provision that permits directors to have the option of filing a service address on the public record with the Registrar of Companies, rather than their private home address.

It is now over a year since regulations came into force effectively putting an end to pension scheme trustees borrowing money directly.

Notified body capacity – or a lack thereof – is a topic we love to keep you updated on here at OTP.

Pharmaceutical law expert Julian Hitchcock spoke to Nature about gene editing regulation and the recent WHO's Committee's recommendations (read Julians initial thoughts here).

The Court of Appeal in Glaxo v Genentech [2008] EWCA Civ 23 has clarified the test on whether to stay UK proceedings for revocation of a UK designation of a European patent pending resolution of opposition proceedings to the patent at the European Patent Office (EPO).

To much fanfare, but a dearth of detail, Theresa May announced on 2 October that the Government will introduce a ‘Great Repeal Bill' in the next Queen's Speech.

Both Nominet and WIPO have recently upheld complaints by footballer Wayne Rooney and Stoneygate 48 Limited, a company wholly owned by him, against the registration of the domain names waynerooney.co.uk and waynerooney.com (respectively), and ordered the transfer of the domain names to Stoneygate (which owns all the intellectual property rights in the Wayne Rooney name and image).

Widespread use of email and increasingly advanced mobile phones has created wider opportunities for advertising. However, unsolicited email and texts are often unwelcome and put customers off, rather than encouraging them to buy.

Further to our earlier blog posts on the New Competition Tool and the Digital Markets Unit, this month's CLIP is an OECD discussion paper authored by Chris Pike and Antonio Capobianco, on competition

Value transfers are a common feature of patent settlement agreements.

First of all, what is cloud computing? At its simplest, it is an arrangement whereby IT resources are provided as a service via the Internet, typically on demand and often without reference to geography or specific local infrastructure.

The European Commission recently released its draft revised Vertical Block Exemption Regulation (VBER) and Vertical Guidelines.

Under the terms of the Northern Ireland Protocol, different rules apply in Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK when placing medical devices on the market.

In the spirit of MedTech Europe's repeated and vocal calls to delay the implementation of the IVDR (see previous article here), Team-NB, the trade association representing 26 leading Notified...

SWIFT, the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications, that operates a worldwide financial messaging service facilitating money transfers has found itself tripped-up by EU data laws. On 22nd November, the influential Article 29 Working Party (i.e. the EU Data Protection Regulators) issued a damning opinion on the compliance of the SWIFTNet FIN Service with the EU Data Protection Directive.