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For-profits and nonprofits in life sciences team up - Nonprofit groups are actively supporting research to solve tough medical challenges. Life sciences and pharma companies are eager to accelerate...
View ArticleTwo New Studies Debunk Benefits of Multivitamins; What is the Impact on...
Two studies released on Monday gained national headlines for their findings on the effectiveness of multivitamins. The two studies found multivitamins didn’t protect aging men’s brains or help heart...
View ArticleConstruction Law Insight: Minnesota Supreme Court Rules In Favor Of...
On November 20, 2013, the Minnesota Supreme Court issued its long-awaited decision in the case of Helmberger v. Johnson Controls, Inc. The Court ruled in favor of Johnson Controls, Inc. (JCI) and its...
View ArticlePharmaceutical Companies Breathe A Sigh Of Relief: Australia’s Highest Court...
For many years, there has been an assumption that methods of medical treatment are patentable under Australian law, but this has never actually been tested at the highest judicial level....By:...
View ArticlePatent Reform: The Leahy Patent Transparency and Improvements Act
Now that the Goodlatte Innovation Act has passed the House, its provisions likely will be reconciled with the Patent Transparency and Improvements Act (S. 1720) that was introduced in the Senate by...
View ArticleNo Harm, No Foul: Security Breach Liability Must Show Data was Used
How secure is your information in this digital age? And what are your legal rights if your information is compromised and you become a victim of identity theft? A couple of recent events are enough to...
View ArticleComments Due January 10, 2014 on Issues Raised in FTC's Internet of Things...
Following its highly publicized workshop exploring consumer privacy and security issues arising from the emerging market of the Internet of Things, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is now calling for...
View ArticleThird-Party Technology Must Comply With HIPAA
Now more than ever, healthcare providers are looking to outsource their standard healthcare functions, such as medical record storage, to third party technology companies. Be mindful that any...
View ArticleCourt Denies Cell-Tower Company's Challenge to Initiative Requiring...
Decision Could Be Relevant to Upcoming FCC Rulemaking - An appellate court last week ruled that a provision of the federal Communications Act limiting how a local government may regulate the...
View ArticleJapan Enacts Regenerative Medicine Law and Revisions to Pharmaceutical...
On 20 November 2013, the Japanese Diet passed the Act regarding Ensuring of Safety of Regenerative Medicine (the "Regenerative Medicine Law") and the revisions to the Pharmaceutical Affairs Law (new...
View ArticleDrug Quality And Security Act
On Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2013, President Obama signed the Drug Quality and Security Act (the "Act"). The Act is an attempt by Congress to bring some compounding pharmacies that use certain bulk products...
View ArticleAustralia’s Highest Court Takes A Knife To Indirect Infringement:...
Under Australian law, indirect or contributory infringement of method of treatment claims has been an issue for quite some time. In particular, there have been a number of injunctions granted in...
View ArticleSecond Circuit Reinstates Federal TCPA Class Action
On December 3, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held that federal rules govern when determining whether a federal TCPA suit may proceed as a class action and reinstated a case dismissed...
View ArticleHealth Reform + Related Health Policy News - December 2013
In This Issue: - Top News ..CMS Releases Payment Rules for the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System, Renal Dialysis and Home Health ..President Signs the Drug...
View ArticleProspects on Germany's Digital Landscape in the Next Four Years: What Does...
Following the German federal election on September 22, 2013, the Christian Democratic Party, the Christian Social Union and the Social Democratic Party decided to take up coalition talks for the...
View ArticleOwnership of Business-Related Social Media Accounts
Social media platforms have become an increasingly important means for companies to build and manage their brands and to interact with their customers, in many cases eclipsing companies’ traditional...
View ArticleEvolving Expectations of Privacy: Klayman v. Obama
In a 68-page opinion, Federal District Judge Richard J. Leon of the District of Columbia ruled yesterday in Klayman v. Obama that the NSA's systematic collection of telephone metadata of millions of...
View ArticleGalderma Laboratories, L.P. v. Tolmar, Inc. (Fed. Cir. 2013)
When does a prior art disclosure of a concentration range of a medicament render obvious the use of a species that falls within that range, when that same use was also known in the prior art? After...
View ArticlePrivacy & Cybersecurity Update - December 2013
In This Issue: - European Commission Proposes Changes to the US-EU Safe Harbor: In our November Privacy & Cybersecurity Update,1 we reported that the European Commission was undertaking a review of...
View ArticleNinth Circuit: City Requirement That Cell-Tower Company Obtain Voter Approval...
When T-Mobile sought to place a cell-tower in a park owned by the City of Huntington Beach, California, the City granted the company all the regulatory approvals it required. But the City also informed...
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