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Sep 17
The European Commission keeps targeting certain patent settlements between pharma companies as anticompetitive agreements: Cephalon and Teva formally accused of “pay-for-delay” in relation to a settlement the parties concluded in 2005
On July 17, 2017 Margrethe Vestagher, the head of antitrust at the European Commission (“Commission”), announced that its services sent a “statement of objections”[1] to the US-based originator company Cephalon Inc (Cephalon) and the Israeli generic company Teva Pharmaceutical Industry Ltd (Teva), accusing the two firms of infringing Article 101 of the TFEU (which prohibits anticompetitive agreements between independent undertakings) when they entered into a patent settlement agreement that, allegedly, had the objective of delaying the marketing in the EEA of a generic version of modafinil – a blockbuster drug for sleep disorders – despite the relevant patents had expired.
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Sep 17
New consent for processing sensitive data not needed after change of data controller: data protection thoughts and M&A
For the first time in Italy, a court has affirmed that when a data controller changes, there is no need to acquire new consent from the participants of a research project involving the processing of sensitive data, if the research purposes do not change.
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Sep 17
Consultation opened on the new EMA’s concept paper on development and lifecycle of personalised medicines and companion diagnostics
The EMA has released for public consultation a concept paper on the development and lifecycle of personalised medicines and companion diagnostics.
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Sep 17
EMA publishes the revised guideline on first-in-human clinical trials
The EMA, in cooperation with the European Commission and the representatives of the Member States of the European Union through the EU Clinical Trials Facilitation Group (CTFG), has revised its guidance on first-in-human clinical trials, to further help stakeholders identify and mitigate risks for trial participants.
