InFocus: Life Sciences & Healthcare newsletter - May 2008

Lawyers Tim Worden, Mark Dennis, Helen Cline, Matthew Royle

Key issues discussed include:

• EU proposals to harmonise laws on provision of Information to patients
• A recent case which considers if "goods in transit" can infringe trade marks
• Reporting adverse events in clinical trials - MHRA recommends change in the law New laws on execution of documents
• User testing of PILs Standard clinical trials agreements in the UK, France and Germany
• The Patent Prosecution Highway initiative.

Our guest authors Richard Ebbink and Mark van Gardingen of Brinkhof, Amsterdam discuss the  recent decisions of the District Court of The Hague in the cases of Ratiopharm / Merck & Co, Inc. and MSD Manufacturing / Ratiopharm et al.  Richard Ebbink and Mark van Gardingen represented Ratiopharm, Sandoz, Centrafarm, and Apothecon.