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Universities abroad experiment with no-fee licensing to drive biotech partnerships

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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  • Australia, Canada, European Union, United Kingdom, USA
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  • May 16 2013

Universities in Australia, Canada, Europe, and the United Kingdom have reportedly embraced a 2010 Glasgow University initiative under which companies

Rudd Center study examines obesity-related health messaging

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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  • Australia, United Kingdom, USA
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  • September 14 2012

Researchers with Yale University’s Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity have published a study purportedly assessing the effectiveness of “major obesity public health campaigns from the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia.”

Philippines department of justice upholds DOH decision on infant formula trademarks

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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  • United Kingdom, USA
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  • June 15 2012

According to news sources, Philippine Department of Justice Secretary Leila de Lima issued an opinion in May 2012, upholding a Department of Health (DOH) memorandum that prohibited multinational companies that make infant milk and other nutritional products from using registered trademarks that contain health and nutrition claims which may undermine breast-feeding and breast milk

Researchers analyze media coverage of nanotechnology risks

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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  • United Kingdom, USA
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  • November 18 2011

Lehigh University researchers studying U.S. and U.K. nanotechnology news coverage from 2000 to 2009 have found relatively few articles about “nanotechnology health, environmental, and societal risks.”

News bytes

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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  • United Kingdom, USA
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  • April 21 2011

The International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications SEAsia Center launches a database of biotechgenetically modified crops and traits that have been approved for commercialization and planting, and for import for food and feed

University of Massachusetts, UK collaborate on stem cell project

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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  • United Kingdom, USA
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  • March 24 2011

The University of Massachusetts Human Stem Cell Bank and Registry and the United Kingdom Stem Cell Bank have reportedly agreed to collaborate on best practices for stem cell banking, including delivery of stem cell lines for clinical use, and may explore funding opportunities for joint research projects

Soft drink consumption allegedly associated with increased blood pressure

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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  • United Kingdom, USA
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  • March 4 2011

U.K. researchers have reportedly linked sugar-sweetened beverages to a risk of high blood pressure, speculating that “one possible mechanism” for the association “is a resultant increase in the level of uric acid in the blood that may in turn lower the nitric oxide required to keep the blood vessels dilated.”

FSA investigates meat from offspring of cloned cow

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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  • United Kingdom, USA
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  • August 20 2010

The U.K. Food Standards Agency (FSA) has announced that meat from a cloned cow’s offspring has evidently entered the food supply, sparking concerns about the country’s livestock registration and tracking requirements