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  • Parallel Trade: Pharmaceuticals Repackaging

    Reino Unido 18.03.2002
    On 7 March Advocate General Jacobs delivered his Opinion on a repackaging case referred to the European Court of Justice by the Cologne Court. The case was brought by Aventis Pharma Deutschland GmbH against...
  • When is a Government Advisory Committee Liable?

    Reino Unido 12.03.2002
    This case examined the liability in private law of a government advisory body to an individual. It was a claim for personal injuries by the Claimant against the Secretary of State for Health sued on behalf...
  • Substituting a defendant outside the 10 year period

    Reino Unido 27.02.2002
    The Court of Appeal has held in SmithKline Beecham plc & anr v Horne-Roberts (on appeal from Horne-Roberts v Merck and Co Inc) [2001] EWCA CIV 2006 that a new defendant can be substituted for an existing...
  • Overseas Commission Payments

    Reino Unido 11.02.2002
    Part 12 of the Anti-Terrorism Crime and Security Act comes in to force on Thursday, 14 February 2002. Its effect is to extend the existing Prevention of Corruption Acts to payments made to overseas agents...
  • Napp Pharmaceuticals loses appeal before Competition Commission Appeals Tribunal

    Reino Unido 21.01.2002
    On 15 January 2002, the Competition Commission Appeal Tribunal (Tribunal) confirmed the findings of the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) that Napp’s pricing policies for morphine pain killer MST had...
  • Record fines imposed on vitamin cartels

    Reino Unido 21.11.2001
    The EC Commission has imposed record fines totalling Euro 855.22 million on eight companies for participating in eight separate secret cartels involving vitamin products. The fines imposed on individual...
  • Validating amendment of patent refused where detriment to public caused by delay

    Reino Unido 02.11.2001
    In the recent case of Instance -v- CCL Label Inc, the Patents Court has held that an application to amend a patent so as to validate it will be refused where there is shown to be a detriment to the public...
  • Dutch challenge to Biotechnology Directive fails

    Reino Unido 02.11.2001
    It will come as some relief to members of the biotech and pharma industries that an action by the Netherlands for annulment of the Directive of the European Parliament and the Council 98/44/EC on the legal...
  • UK Patents Review 2001

    Reino Unido 20.09.2001
    The 2001 edition of Cameron McKenna’s UK Patents Review has just been published. Topics covered in the review include: Revival of the Patents County Court? Laddie J brought into line New problems...
  • Important changes to the EU pharmaceutical regulatory system

    Reino Unido 05.09.2001
    In July 2001 the European Commission announced proposals for major changes to the regulatory system for pharmaceuticals, following the Review of the system carried out in 2000 by CMS Cameron McKenna and...