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Workers can reclaim holidays lost to sickness

  • Howes Percival LLP
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  • European Union, United Kingdom
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  • September 28 2009

The European Court of Justice (the "ECJ") has held that, where a worker is sick during a period of pre-arranged annual leave, they should be given the opportunity to take that period of annual leave at a later date, even if this will fall in the worker's next annual leave year

The patentability of stem cells: WARF's success and failure on opposite sides of the Atlantic

  • Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
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  • European Union, United Kingdom, USA
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  • March 31 2008

The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) has had three of its patents in relation to stem cells (and in particular, methods of isolation) upheld by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO

Are supplementary protection certificates keeping pace with drug development?

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • European Union, United Kingdom
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  • April 10 2007

The pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries are heavily dependent on patents as a means of securing future revenues

Pharmacists will be able to supply medicines prescribed by EU doctors

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
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  • European Union, United Kingdom
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  • August 13 2008

By virtue of the Medicines for Human Use (Prescribing by EEA practitioners) Regulations 2008, which come into force on 3 November 2008, pharmacists will be able to sell or supply medicines prescribed by doctors or dentists in EEA states (other than the UK) and Switzerland, subject to certain exceptions

Working time: EU law allows employees to reclaim holiday if they are ill

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • European Union, United Kingdom
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  • October 2 2009

A worker who is sick during statutory holiday should be allowed under EU law to take the holiday at a later date, if necessary in the following holiday year, according to the ECJ

Implemention of “Bolar” in the EU

  • Wragge & Co LLP
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  • European Union, United Kingdom
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  • October 31 2007

In Europe, Directive 200427EC (amending Directive 200183EC) introduced into European Union legislation for the first time an exemption from patent infringement for conducting certain developmental work pre-patent expiry (the EU ‘Bolar’ exemption

ECJ on generics and pre-EU accession marketing authorisations

  • Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP
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  • European Union, United Kingdom
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  • October 26 2009

The European Court of Justice has ruled on whether an applicant for a marketing authorisation can rely on the marketing authorisation of a reference drug if that earlier marketing authorisation does not meet EU standards

Paedriatric SPC extension: zero or negative term SPCs

  • Bird & Bird
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  • European Union, United Kingdom
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  • March 11 2009

Zero or negative term SPCs give rise to a unique disunity amongst the granting authorities in the European Member States

New ECJ reference in relation to supplementary protection certificates for medicinal products

  • Bird & Bird
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  • European Union, Germany, United Kingdom
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  • December 20 2007

The latest reference to the ECJ under Council Regulation (EEC) No 179892 concerning the creation of a supplementary protection certificate for medicinal products, which establishes the scheme by which supplementary protection certificates (SPCs) enable de facto patent term extension of up to 5 years to be secured for pharmaceuticals, concerns the time limit for filing an application for such an SPC

Advocate General recommends that ECJ find UK medicines regulators are in breach of Community law as to mutual recognition by refusing to recognise an abridged authorisation for a medicinal product granted in a different reference member state

  • Bird & Bird
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  • European Union, United Kingdom
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  • July 16 2008

In an opinion given on 10 July 2008 in Case C-45206 The Queen, on the application of: Synthon BV v The Licensing Authority of the Department of Health (represented by the Medicines Control Agency the Advocate General (whose recommendations the ECJ usually follows) has recommended that the ECJ answer the questions posed to it in this matter by the English High Court

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