Pharma
27 August 2026 Turkish regulators are investigating the drugmaker over its efforts to protect its drug from generic rivals—conduct that may sound familiar to European competition watchers.
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17 August 2026 Europe’s biotechnology challenge is not only whether it can fund innovation. It is whether it can continue to originate and control the foundational IP positions from which future biotech value is created. Paul Calvo of Sterne Kessler explains.
14 August 2026 Pressure for generic manufacturers of the blockbuster heart drug Entresto is mounting as the Swiss pharma company secures a win over a challenge to its UK patent protection.
11 August 2026 A litigation campaign against generic drugmakers, including Sandoz, Hikma, and Amenal, raise the stakes in the fight over two of the world’s most lucrative weight loss and diabetes treatments.
10 August 2026 Takanori Abe of Abe & Partners brings the perspective of a lawyer with first-hand experience in the German courtrooms to Pharmaceutical, Biological and Chemical Patents, a valuable resource on case law.
6 August 2026 A Netherlands court ruling marks the latest win as Novo Nordisk ramps up efforts to protect semaglutide from unapproved products, copycats and an increasingly competitive market.
5 August 2026 From advising pioneering startups to championing women in the profession, Fran Salisbury of Mewburn Ellis has spent her career making innovation count. Here, she reflects on the challenges, opportunities and motivations that continue to drive her.
5 August 2026 With more than 25 years’ experience, the ex-EIP partner specialises in technology and life sciences, particularly SEPs and FRAND in the UK and Europe.
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Europe
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