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UK will permanently retain its UK+ exhaustion regime to allow continued supply of medicines into the UK

A&O Shearman on 6/4/2025

The government has published its response to the consultation on the exhaustion regime for IP rights. The overall conclusion is that the UK will permanently maintain its UK+ IP exhaustion regime, the bespoke (and...more

Goodbye Reboxing! European Court of Justice Restricts Parallel Imports of Medicines

King & Spalding on 12/9/2022

On November 17, 2022, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) found in its latest principal judgment (Novartis v. Abacus, case file C-147/20) that the reboxing of parallel imported medicines in the European Union...more

DHSC Update on Medicines and Medical Devices Contingency Planning

Hogan Lovells on 11/8/2019

Following the recent agreement to delay Brexit until 31 January 2020, the UK Department of Health and Social Care ("DHSC") has written to suppliers of UK medicines and medical devices to confirm the continued contingency...more

UK MHRA consults on no-deal Brexit legislation

Hogan Lovells on 10/5/2018

The UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has initiated a consultation on the legislation and regulatory processes for medicines, medical devices and related clinical trials that would need to be...more

UK publishes paper on Brexit and medicines regulation

Hogan Lovells on 11/22/2017

On the same day as the European Council voted to move the European Medicines Agency (EMA) from London to Amsterdam, the UK Parliament issued a briefing paper on Brexit and medicines regulation. ...more

Rx IP Update - July 2017

Smart & Biggar on 7/24/2017

Supreme Court of Canada strikes down "promise doctrine", upholds AstraZeneca’s NEXIUM patent as useful - As previously reported, on June 30, 2017, the Supreme Court of Canada granted AstraZeneca’s appeal in the NEXIUM...more

EU-U.S. Agreement for Mutual Recognition of GMP Inspections Entered Into Force

Jones Day on 4/14/2017

On March 4, 2017, the "Decision No 1/2017 of March 1, 2017, of the Joint Committee established under Article 14 of the Agreement on Mutual Recognition between the European Community and the United States of America, amending...more

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