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This year’s Life Sciences Law Forum is taking place on June 25 in London. LSIPR caught up with the conference’s chair James Horgan, of Merck Sharp & Dohme, and GlaxoSmithKline counsel Anthony Kenny to find out what’s keeping them busy and what they’ll discuss on the day.
James Horgan, legal director of European patents at Merck Sharp & Dohme (MSD)
What is your day-to-day role at MSD, and what projects are you working on at the moment?
The team of patent attorneys here is responsible for prosecuting the vast majority of MSD’s patent applications in Europe, and that includes defending oppositions against our own patents and filing oppositions against third parties. We also file large numbers of supplementary protection certificates (SPCs), and there will be a lot of those in a year when there are a number of new product launches.
On top of this, we get involved in some of MSD’s patent litigation in the UK and Europe, as well as supporting business needs with due diligence and general patent questions.
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