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A Look Ahead in Life Sciences: What We Are Tracking in the Third Quarter of 2025 and Beyond

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As the life sciences, medtech, and diagnostic industries continue to grow increasingly complex, so does the legal, regulatory, and compliance landscape. To help companies and investors navigate the many evolving and emerging...more

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

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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

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New Pharmaceutical Industry Standards Apply to the Promotion of Medicines in the United Kingdom: ABPI Code 2024 and the PMCPA...

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Pharmaceutical companies promoting prescription-only medicines to health professionals and other relevant decision makers in the UK must now adhere to revised industry standards that came into operation from 1 October 2024...more

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A Look Ahead in Life Sciences: What We Are Tracking in Q1 2024 and Beyond

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As the life sciences, medtech, and diagnostic industries continue to expand and grow increasingly complex, so does the legal, regulatory, and compliance landscape. To help companies and investors navigate the many evolving...more

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Lowest-risk Clinical Trials Will Benefit From a New Notification Scheme and a Shorter Period for Application Processing

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On 12 October 2023, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (the MHRA) announced that the healthcare and life sciences sector will benefit from a new streamlined notification scheme for lowest-risk clinical...more

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A Look Ahead in Life Sciences: What We Are Tracking in Q4 2023 and Beyond

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As the life sciences, medtech, and diagnostic industries continue to expand and grow increasingly complex, so does the legal, regulatory, and compliance landscape. To help companies and investors navigate the many evolving...more

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UK’s Medicines Regulator Announces Guidance on the New International Recognition Procedure for the Approval of New Medicines from...

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Earlier this year, the UK’s medicines regulator, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), announced that a new International Recognition Procedure (IRP) will be put in place for the approval of new...more

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European Biosimilar Regulatory Updates

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STADA and Xbrane Announce Approval of Ranibizumab Biosimilar in UK - On January 16, 2023, STADA Arzneimittel AG (STADA) and Xbrane Biopharyma AB (Xbrane) announced that the UK’s Medicines and Healthcare product Regulatory...more

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Senator Mike Lee Introduces the Biosimilar Red Tape Elimination Act to Eliminate Switching Study Requirement for Biosimilar...

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On November 17, 2022, Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) introduced the “Biosimilar Red Tape Elimination Act” to increase biosimilar competition and reduce patient costs by prohibiting the FDA from requiring switching studies to approve...more

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Accord Healthcare has Launched Zercepac® (Trastuzumab) Biosimilar in the UK

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Following approval by the European Commission in July, last week Accord Healthcare announced the launch of Zercepac® a biosimilar to Herceptin® in the United Kingdom....more

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The Court of Justice of the European Union provides clarifications on the assessment under competition law of pay-for-delay deals...

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On 30 January 2020, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued its decision on a request for preliminary ruling submitted by the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) in a case concerning the long-standing...more

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Celltrion to Launch REMSIMA SC (infliximab) in Europe in March, 2020

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Multiple sources are reporting that Celltrion is planning to roll out REMSIMA SC, its subcutaneous infliximab biosimilar of Johnson & Johnson’s autoimmune disease treatment REMICADE, in Europe in the first quarter of 2020,...more

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Financial Daily Dose 10.21.2019 | Top Story: Four Drug Companies Reach Last-minute Deal to Avoid Start of Federal Opioid Trial

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A last-minute deal between defendants McKesson, Cardinal Health, AmerisourceBergen, and Teva and plaintiffs’ attorneys means that multidistrict opioid epidemic litigation set to kick off in Ohio federal court today will not...more

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Financial Daily Dose 10.6.2019 | Top Story: Drug Distributors and Maker in Talks for Multi-billion-dollar Opioid Litigation...

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A group of three major drug distributors—McKesson, AmerisourceBergen, and Cardinal Health—are in the midst of talks with representatives of state and local governments who have brought more than 2000 opioid-related lawsuits...more

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New UK MHRA No Deal Guidance

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With the possibility of the UK leaving the EU on 29 March 2019 (a "no deal" Brexit) still on the table, life sciences companies are continuing their "no deal" preparations....more

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Brexit snapshot: Medicines

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Do you have a centralised EU marketing authorisation holder, orphan designation holder, manufacturing activities including import, batch control or batch release sites, a Qualified Person for Pharmacovigilance (QPPV),...more

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Updated UK “no deal” Brexit guidance on medicines, medical devices and clinical trials

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The UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has issued updated guidance on how the UK would regulate medicines, medical devices and clinical trials in the event that the UK leaves the EU on 29 March 2019...more

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UK MHRA consults on no-deal Brexit legislation

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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

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Antitrust, Competition, and Economic Regulation Quarterly Newsletter - Summer 2018

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Read the latest news on antitrust, competition, and economic regulation in this summer edition of our quarterly ACER newsletter. ...more

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HMA-EMA’s work programme on availability of authorised medicines for human and veterinary use includes measures for Brexit

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On 23 August 2018, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and the Heads of Medicines Agencies (HMA), the network of the National Competent Authorities in the European Economic Area (EEA), published the work programme of their...more

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Updated EMA guidance on centrally authorised medicines raises new considerations for Brexit preparations

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On 19 June 2018, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) published updates to its Brexit Q&A document for human and veterinary medicines authorised via the centralised procedure and to its practical procedural guidance on making...more

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UK Parliamentary Report Published on the Impact of Brexit on the Pharmaceutical Sector

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The Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee, a parliamentary select committee, has published a report on the consequences of Brexit on the UK pharmaceutical industry. ...more

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Excessive Pricing, ‘Pay-For-Delay’ and Rebates: A New Era of Enforcement in the Pharmaceutical Industry

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The European Commission (EC) and other national competition authorities (NCAs) have traditionally shied away from investigating allegations of excessive pricing and appearing as price regulators. Commissioner Vestager warned...more

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UK Supreme Court Decision In Actavis V. Eli Lilly – Doctrine Of Equivalents Recognized

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In its decision of July 12, 2017 in Actavis v. Eli Lilly, the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom for the first time formally adopted the concept of a doctrine of equivalents when considering what constituted an infringement...more

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Merck Launches Ontruzant®, First Trastuzumab Biosimilar in Europe

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Last week it was reported (here and here) that Merck launched Samsung Bioepis’ Ontruzant® in the United Kingdom, the first biosimilar trastuzumab launched in Europe. Ontruzant® is a biosimilar of Roche’s Herceptin® and is...more

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