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Life Sciences weekly highlights—29 March 2018

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Published on: 29 March 2018

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Table of contents

Manufacture, marketing and sale
General Court annuls EMA decision refusing to validate application for orphan designation (Shire Pharmaceuticals Ireland Ltd v EMA)
Innovate UK to invest £10m in antimicrobial resistance projects
Brexit
MLex Special Report: Rival Visions of a Brexit Deal
Brexit—European Council adopts guidelines on future EU-UK relationship
EU Commission sets out position on IP rights post-Brexit
Disputes and regulatory enforcement
Ombudsman finds European Medicines Agency refusal to identify company was ‘maladministration’
IP

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Article summary

This week’s edition of Life Sciences highlights includes details of the General Court case Shire Pharmaceuticals Ireland Ltd v EMA concerning an application for orphan designation, news of The European Ombudsman’s decision that EMA’s refusal to identify a company that asked for public access to a report on a drug constituted maladministration, and the latest updates on Brexit, including the position on IP rights in the latest iteration of the draft withdrawal agreement.

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