Proposed changes to pharmaceutical regulatory exclusivities in Europe
In April this year, the European Commission submitted its proposals for revisions to the EU’s pharmaceutical legislation governing the authorisation of medicinal products.
Sara Holland shares what she's learned by working with a growing number of scientist-founders.
You will have done well to miss the news that Twitter has shed its old skin and emerged from the social media cocoon with a new identity as "X".
This is one of the rare cases about the requirement of copyright fixation, which demonstrates how the English courts apply the existing, 35-year-old, copyright law to new technologies.
In April this year, the European Commission submitted its proposals for revisions to the EU’s pharmaceutical legislation governing the authorisation of medicinal products.
Software is actually a very good example of a type of invention that might be suitable for protection by a trade secret.
The House of Lords Sub-Committee on the Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland released its report on the Windsor Framework on 25 July 2023. In case you missed it, we summarise below how the Framework will affect the valuable intellectual property rights known as Supplementary Protection Certificates (SPCs) in the UK.
As soon as a brand hits the internet, it is at immediate risk of being copied, misused and mis-sold in an increasingly diverse range of ways.
While a patent is often regarded as the ‘gold standard’ of protection for inventions, patents are not always the best option when it comes to software. Trade secrets often offer software developers a viable alternative to patents.
The amount of counterfeit product being sold online is more than keeping pace with the increase in online retail. As this number increases, so does the impact counterfeiting has on brands.
In the race to get new products into a massively saturated market, it is easy for food and drink businesses to skip over protecting every aspect of their intellectual property.
Online brand protection is the umbrella term for the combination of strategies, activities, and measures businesses must take to safeguard their brand's reputation, intellectual property, and customer base in the digital environment.
In March Google announced that May 2023 would see the launch of eight new top-level domains, .Foo, .Zip, .Mov, .Nexus, .Dad, .Phd, .Prof and .Esq.
3D printing is now a widespread technology that may have seemed as fanciful 100 years ago as Star Trek's replicators do to us now.
In this article written for FMCG CEO, Sarah explains how to identify a trade secret and - most importantly - how to keep it.
As 10 blockbuster drug patents expire, do pharma companies need to focus even more on patent term extensions & exclusivity strategy?