23 Dec, 2024 All change for UK SPCs By Gareth Williams Since Brexit, the UK has had a somewhat confusing situation regarding medicinal marketing authorisations (MAs) and supplementary...
19 Dec, 2024 An early Christmas present for combination products By Gareth Williams As always, the CJEU continue to refine the rules regarding obtaining SPCs in Europe. The latest judgment on combination products leaves...
18 Nov, 2024 Navigating the shifting sands of biotechnology patenting By Will Arends Taken from a webinar between Suzanne Renes, Nicole Mastrangelo and David Diamond on 24 September 2024, chaired by Will Arends (Partner,...
15 Aug, 2024 Combatting antimicrobial resistance By Gareth Williams Antimicrobial resistance, or AMR, is one of the major current health concerns. Resistant strains which have emerged recently include...
24 Jul, 2024 Taking Charge of Our Health: Medical Wearables By Kameel Kaur Bassi Medical wearables have come a long way from the traditional fitness trackers and heart rate monitors that first flooded the market. From...
18 Jul, 2024 Concussion biomarkers linked to MND By Tom Grendon If you have been following the news recently, you may well have seen that Motor Neurone Disease (MND) has been in the headlines more and...
09 Jul, 2024 Celebrating a vaccine success By Paul Chapman Vaccines are not new. Edward Jenner, although not the inventor of vaccination, certainly pioneered vaccination and developed the first...
01 Jul, 2024 Jumping Genes! By Gareth Williams This is a potentially exciting new development in the world of genome engineering. Researchers have used bacterial transposons - mobile...
28 Jun, 2024 Fungi not so fun guys any more By Gareth Williams If you've seen or played The Last of Us, the post-apocalyptic survival horror game/show, you'll be familiar with the idea that fungal...
13 Jun, 2024 Longitude Prize on AMR (antimicrobial resistance) - and the winner is... By Paul Chapman In 1714, the Longitude Act was passed, seeking to find a useful method to determine longitude to an accuracy of half a degree. The prize...
24 May, 2024 WIPO agree new treaty on genetic resources and traditional knowledge By Gareth Williams As reported in their press release, WIPO member states have agreed a new Treaty on Intellectual Property, Genetic Resources and...
24 May, 2024 EU ban on plant patents: possible compromise? By Gareth Williams Euractiv are reporting a possible compromise on the EU Parliament's controversial proposals to ban patents on plants. It seems one...