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Swine flu: a serious risk that should be dealt with sensibly by employers

Dentons
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United Kingdom
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May 11 2009

As the number of confirmed cases of swine flu in the UK increases, the Department of Health has warned employers to expect repeated waves of one in four employees being off work in the event that swine flu reaches a pandemic

FSA writes on long-term care funding

Dentons
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United Kingdom
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July 8 2011

FSA has written to the Dilnot Commission on Funding of Care and Support saying it believes the financial services industry has a role to play

Financing of hospital projects: whither Deeds of Safeguard?

Dentons
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United Kingdom
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July 20 2011

The last decade in the UK has seen many hospital redevelopments procured through the Private Finance Initiative

UK private healthcare sector under the microscope

Dentons
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United Kingdom
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December 22 2011

On 8 December 2011, the Office of Fair Trading in the UK announced that it has sufficient concerns about the way in which the market for private healthcare services operates to be considering making a market investigation reference to the Competition Commission

Competition

Dentons
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European Union, United Kingdom
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January 5 2012

The European Commission is pursuing formal antitrust proceedings to investigate whether a number of international publishers have, possibly with the help of Apple, engaged in anti-competitive practices affecting the sale of e-books in the EU

Novelty of new dosage regimes and the emergence of a new EPO-friendly regime

Dentons
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United Kingdom
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December 3 2008

Merck owned a patent for the use of a new dosage regime for Finasteride, a drug for male pattern baldness

Markush claims and selection patents

Dentons
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United Kingdom
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December 3 2008

This case examines the validity of patents for individual compounds (and their salts) falling within a previously disclosed class of compounds and reviews the old case law on “selection patents”

Clarification of biogen insufficiency

Dentons
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United Kingdom
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December 3 2008

Citalopram is an antidepressant drug

Clarification of the law on industrial application

Dentons
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United Kingdom
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December 3 2008

Eli Lilly sought to revoke a European patent owned by Human Genome Sciences on various grounds, including failure to disclose an invention capable of industrial application

Sex discrimination objectively justified on grounds of cost

Dentons
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United Kingdom
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August 9 2011

The High Court has recently ruled that preferential treatment of widows over widowers in the NHS Pension Scheme is objectively and reasonably justified as it would cost £4 billion to put right

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