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Alongside patent protection, data exclusivity can offer valuable market protection to a pharmaceutical product. But can data in support of a product approved through the so-called hybrid-abridged procedure attract the same kind of protection? The High Court says they can’t...

A recent patent dispute between GlaxoSmithKline and Pfizer group company Wyeth did not follow the usual pattern of an injunction against the infringer's product despite a win for the patentee.

Following the tragic death of Lord Saatchi’s wife from ovarian cancer in 2011 and a two-year campaign, it was only after a surprise veto by the Liberal Democrats that the Bill was defeated...