May 25, 2023 BioIntegrates 2023: Biotech pinch points and strategic decisions By Ellen Lambrix Ellen Lambrix and Adam Coughlin from Bristows' Commercial IP team attended the BioIntegrates conference in London on 16 May 2023. With...
May 19, 2023 Plausibility post G2/21 – Apixaban in the UK - Bristows By Aida Tohala First published in Kluwer Copyright Blog, May 2023, patent litigator Aida Tohala discusses the legal concept of plausibility following...
May 11, 2023 Unitary Patents: Joint ownership and governing law By Ellen Lambrix Victor Mound The Unitary Patent system is finally due to go live on 1 June 2023 and transitional measures are already in place to assist applicants...
May 10, 2023 Embryo gene editing: from theory to practice By Aida Tohala The Guardian reported yesterday that the first UK baby with DNA from three people has been born in IVF treatment. In 2017, the Newcastle...
May 03, 2023 Complying with GCP, as easy as ABC? IT providers to clinical trials to be directly regulated By Rebecca Andersen Adrian Sim The Government has confirmed in its recent Response to Consultation for Legislative Proposals for Clinical Trials that it will be...
Apr 20, 2023 Trends in digital health: Health apps as software medical devices By Xisca Borrás Jamie Hatzel This article is the sixth in our "Trends in digital health" series. Anyone who has spent more than a passing moment browsing a smartphone...
Mar 30, 2023 Trends in digital health: Open letter to O'Shaughnessy Review By Alex Denoon Marc Dautlich This article is the fifth in our "Trends in digital health" series. Lord O’Shaughnessy has been asked to make recommendations to the UK...
Mar 27, 2023 Cell and gene therapy platforms licensing – exclusivity and carving-up fields By Louisa Jacobs Cell and gene therapies (CGTs) are highly complex and sophisticated technologies with a lot of constituent parts. To bring a product to...
Mar 23, 2023 Trends in digital health: Is synthetic data the real deal? By Fiona Campbell Will Hewitt This article is the fourth in our "Trends in digital health" series. Synthetic data itself is not a new concept – on some analyses, 2023...
Mar 16, 2023 Largest ever UK research programme to collect personal data from 5 million volunteers By Cosima Lumley An ambitious new project is currently underway with the goal of becoming the UK’s “largest ever health research programme”.[1] Up to 5...
Mar 01, 2023 Consultation on the Reform of the Human Fertilisation & Embryology Act Regulating Scientific Advance By Julian Hitchcock This HFEA consultation, launched on Tuesday, is important not only for IVF clinics, but to all those working in the fields of...
Feb 22, 2023 Techbio: sourcing, valuing and sharing data in an AI world – takeaways from Genesis 2022 By Claire Smith The life sciences industry saw unprecedented levels of activity in 2020 and 2021 in the fight against Covid. In 2022 we saw a different...