Overview

SJ Berwin provides commentary on recent legal and regulatory issues in the pharmaceutical and healthcare industry including:

 Court of Justice interprets Biotech Patent Directive
 European Commission’s first report on monitoring patent settlements
 Court of Appeal refers questions to the Court of Justice on SPCs for combination products
 Yeda’s SPC applications fall ‘between two stools’
 KCI Patent valid and infringed
 UK and German Courts divided on claim construction
 Court of Appeal confirms that CoreValve’s heart valve device does not infringe Edwards’ patent
 Court of Appeal upholds invalidity of Cook patent
 UK IPO issues Practice Notice on second medical use claims
 Product liability: Confirmation from the Supreme Court regarding substitution of parties after longstop date

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