This document is from our Archive and no action should be taken in reliance on it without specific legal advice. You can perform a search for more recent content. Inside Life Sciences Issue 7 March 2019 4716 Editor's Note Welcome to the Spring 2019 edition of Inside Life Sciences. Read more 6607 No protection for new formulation of old active ingredient The CJEU has adopted a narrow interpretation of Article 3(d) of the SPC Regulation, finding that a supplementary protection certificate cannot be granted where a product protected by a marketing authorisation is a new formulation of an active ingredient which is protected by an earlier marketing authorisation. Read more 4143 SPC Reform: Manufacturing Export Waiver and EU Day One Launch Agreed Representatives of the European Commission, Council and Parliament have reached agreement on a compromise text relating to an exception to infringement of an SPC for the purposes of exporting to third countries, and also, significantly, for the purposes of stockpiling medicines in the six month period before the SPC expires to allow for a Day One EU launch. Read more 1960 Artificial intelligence – the future of clinical trials As discussed in Part One of this review on the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in the early stages of drug development, there is clearly a long way to go before they will genuinely make drug development cheaper, faster and more efficacious. Read more 1961 High Court ruling clarifies the legal position of parallel imports of medical devices A recent High Court ruling (Dansac and ors v Salts Healthcare Limited and ors) has clarified the law relating to relabelled imported pharmaceutical and medical products following the 2018 ruling of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in Junek v Rauscher (discussed in our July 2018 edition). Read more Previous Issues Prev Next Issue 13 Apr 2021 Issue 12 Nov 2020 Issue 11 Aug 2020 Issue 10 Jun 2020 Issue 9 Dec 2019 Issue 8 Jul 2019 Issue 7 Mar 2019 Issue 6 Nov 2018 Issue 5 Jul 2018 Issue 4 Mar 2018 Issue 3 Nov 2017 Issue 2 Jul 2017 Issue 1 Apr 2017 Services Life Sciences Share