According to data published in August by the Health & Social Care Information Centre, although the NHS received 60,000 written complaints last year about GPs and dentists, the number of complaints against pharmacists was insignificant.

The GPhC appears to apply a more restrictive approach than the Royal Pharmaceutical Society did when examining which cases should be referred to a full disciplinary hearing.

The Medicines and HealthCare Products Regulatory Agency is currently consulting on a major review and consolidation of the Medicines Act and associated legislation.

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The GPhC has announced that it is reviewing its standards, including what pharmacy professionals must do if their religious or moral beliefs prevent them from providing a service.

The First Tier tribunal has held that DWP must disclose under the FOIA most of the information specified in an FOI request relating to the contract between it and Atos Origin for IT services for the Government Gateway.

The Football League is a company limited by shares held by the football clubs which played in the league. Its articles required a member club to give a transfer notice on the happening of an insolvency event.

Meltwater provided an online news-monitoring service called "Meltwater News". Meltwater (following a dispute in the Copyright Tribunal) entered into a web database licence with NLA (who manage the IP rights of national newspapers) to carry out its media monitoring activities of newspapers.

The EPO and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) have signed an agreement in recognition of the need for standards makers to share information to help improve the quality of patents.

From the outset, as far as the renewal fees for a European patent with unitary effect are concerned, they will be "similar to the level of the national renewal fees for an average European patent taking effect in the participating Member States at the time the level of the renewal fees is first set."

An application to the IPO to commence entitlement proceedings was filed on the second anniversary of the grant of the patent concerned.

In the same month that Microsoft cut off thousands of gamers who had modified their Xboxes to play pirated videogames, the Court of Appeal has, in the case of R v Gilham, upheld a conviction of a man who sold modification chips allowing gamers to play pirate or counterfeit games.

Creativity and innovation are at the heart of IP and stories of individuals and friends creating successful brands with little capital and simply believing in their ideas are inspiring

All goods and services covered by registered trade marks in the UK and numerous other countries are divided into 45 classes under the NICE Classification system.

In 118 Data Resource Ltd v IDS Data Services Ltd and others [2014] EWHC 3629 (Ch), a database licence contained an audit clause allowing a licensee to "permit any duly authorised representative of [the Licensor] on reasonable prior notice to enter into any of its premises where any copies of [the Database] are used, for the purpose of ascertaining that the provisions of this Agreement are being complied with".

This decision of the Court of Appeal ([2012] EWCA Civ 11) gives guidance on the view taken by the Court in general on disclosure of documents that are deemed to be within a party’s control, even if on the face of it that party has no right to those documents.

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors ("RICS") has released the 7th edition of its Party Wall Legislation and Procedure Guidance Note

Last week Instagram announced that it has increased the remit of its trial involving hiding the number of "likes" on posts.

As an IP lawyer fascinated by the interaction between sports, esports and gaming, it is no surprise that the story of Burger King's Stevenage FC campaign caught my eye.

The Gambling (Licensing and Advertising) Act 2014 will bring changes to the law on the licensing and advertising of gambling in Great Britain into effect.