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New German Appointment Service and Supply Act: Implications for investors in the dental industry
18 April 2019 - Posted by: Eda Zhuleku
On 14 March 2019, the German Parliament (Bundestag) adopted the German Appointment Service and Supply Act (Terminservice- und Versorgungsgesetz; TSVG), which will come into force in May 2019, as the German Federal Council (Bundesrat) did not veto the law. During the legislative process, it was feared that the Act would have significant impact on the › Read More
More’s the Pity – Rules on Distinctiveness
17 April 2019 - Posted by: David Stone
A recent General Court decision emphasises the difficulty of registering slogans as trade marks, including for specialised medical devices. Medrobotics Corp had applied for registration of SEE MORE. REACH MORE. TREAT MORE. as an EU trade mark (Medrobotics v EUIPO T-555/18) in relation to articulated arms and probes for medical diagnostic and surgical use. Medrobotics’ › Read More
Coordination amongst member states on medicines’ prices supported by the European Commission
19 February 2019 - Posted by: Nele De Backer
European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, Vytenis Andriukaitis, said that the European Commission will support national competition authorities in their probes against excessive pricing practices in pharmaceutical markets. In addition, the European Commission will continue to monitor pharmaceutical markets itself, as part of its competition policy, and is ready to act against infringements of › Read More
15 February 2019 - Posted by: Emma Keeling
On 23 January 2019, the European Data Protection Board (the EDPB) adopted an opinion on the interplay between the EU Clinical Trials Regulation (536/2014) (the CTR) and the General Data Protection Regulation (2016/679) (the GDPR) (the Opinion). The Opinion aims to provide greater certainty for those conducting clinical trials, clarifying: the distinction between consent requirements › Read More
European Commission issues report on antitrust enforcement in the pharmaceutical sector
30 January 2019 - Posted by: Dominc Long
A decade on from its inquiry into the pharmaceutical sector in 2009, on 28 January 2019 the European Commission (EC) issued a report providing an overview of antitrust law enforcement (antitrust and mergers) in the EU from 2009-2017 in the pharmaceutical sector. The report confirms that effective enforcement of EU antitrust rules in the sector › Read More