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Americas
If you can find the time between attending sessions and networking, making the most of the local area is an essential part of the 2016 BIO International Convention. LSIPR offers five tips for things to see and do in San Francisco. 6 June 2016
Americas
In an interview with LSIPR, Hans Sauer, deputy general counsel for intellectual property at the Biotechnology Innovation Organization, explains more about the big issues affecting it at the moment and how the trade association is responding. 6 June 2016
Biotechnology
The biotech industry on both sides of the Atlantic is facing serious challenges in protecting its inventions, argues Nathalie Moll, secretary general of EuropaBio, which is organising a discussion on the topic at the 2016 BIO International Convention in San Francisco. 5 June 2016
Biotechnology
Birmingham—Britain’s second city—with a leading university for research and development, allows biotech companies to enjoy the benefits of a cluster, as James Wilkie, CEO of Alta Innovations, the commercial spinout of the University of Birmingham, told LSIPR. 5 June 2016
Americas
Mexico and other signatories to the TPP face a number of challenges on the IP front in implementing its reforms, as Iliana Ramirez Villaseñor of Leyva, Montenegro, Trigueros Abogados reports. 3 June 2016
Europe
In Russia, more attention is being paid towards the correlation between IP rights and competition restrictions, and pharma companies should keep abreast of developments, says Ilya Goryachev of Gorodissky & Partners. 3 June 2016
Americas
President Barack Obama has praised scientists and the technology industry at the honorary ceremony for scientists at the White House. 2 June 2016
Big Pharma
National Health Service England has been criticised after announcing its decision that it will not be providing the HIV treatment Truvada, which enables pre-exposure prophylaxis. 2 June 2016
Americas
Law firm Fox Rothschild has hired Patrick Birde, Deborah Somerville and Christopher Glynn as partners in the firm’s intellectual property practice. 2 June 2016
Americas
A pending case at the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit may give the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry important guidance on issues surrounding third-party contract manufacturing and the on-sale bar to patentability, as Porter Fleming and Jason Kanter of Frommer Lawrence & Haug report. 2 June 2016