Objective
This annual conference aims at keeping legal practitioners working with the pharmaceutical sector up-to-date on the latest relevant regulatory developments, legislative initiatives and case law. A particular focus will be on implications for the sector of recent EU activities in the fields of competition law, intellectual property, as well as pharmaceutical law.
Key topics
Competition law
- The revised competition and licensing regime for technology transfer agreements
- Reverse patent settlements and impact of the recent decision from the European Commission in Servier
- Actions for damages
Patent law and trade secrets
- Preparing for litigation before the future Unified Patent Court
- Unitary patent and supplementary protection certificates: is the current legal framework still adequate?
- A new enforcement regime for trade secrets
EU pharmaceutical law round-up
- Update on medical devices and in-vitro diagnostics
- The revised transparency policy adopted by the EMA towards access to clinical trials data
- Innovative pricing and reimbursement models
- National and EU current policies towards access to medicinal products: off-label use, orphan drugs, national measures against drugs shortage
- Implications of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
Who should attend?
In-house counsel and legal or patent advisers in pharmaceutical companies; lawyers in private practice dealing with pharmaceuticals and medical devices; lawyers in national ministries and authorities dealing with regulation of the sector.
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Young lawyers and other groups
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Registration
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More details about the fees and discounts
Early registration discount:
10% before 26.01.2015
Discounts available:
25 % - For young lawyers up to 30 years of age (important: the participant must provide a copy or details of his or her passport or identity card on registration); Full-time staff of universities or comparable academic institutions; Staff of charitable organisations or comparable institutions
40 % - Staff of European Union institutions and agencies; Staff of ERA’s patrons (Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany and the German states, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Scotland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, City of Trier).