12/19/2024 11:12:39 PM Our Predictions for Life Sciences in 2025 By DLA Piper Life Sciences As the New Year is fast approaching, we asked members of our Life Sciences team to share their predictions of what will be the key issues...
12/4/2024 9:05:29 AM DLA Piper Genomics Series: Shaping the Future of Genomics - How Governments Worldwide Are Driving the Shift to Personalised Medicine By Kate Black As our Genomics mini-series has been exploring to date, genomic medicine is rapidly transforming healthcare across the globe, offering...
5/31/2023 3:46:57 PM Expert witnesses in Australian patent litigation - Recent federal court decisions reinforce the need to choose your expert witnesses carefully By Nicholas Tyacke Robynne Sanders Greg Bodulovic Alexandra de Zwart Jordan Davis +2 more... Show less The role of the expert witness is often crucial in Australian patent litigation, especially where the invention in question is...
3/22/2024 1:55:37 PM Merger Control – European Commission’s power to review transactions under Article 22 at risk By Joost Haans In the much reported Illumina / Grail case, the European Commission (“Commission”) relied on Article 22 of the EU Merger Regulation...
12/12/2023 10:50:14 PM Uprooting Algorithmic Bias: How life sciences and healthcare organisations can minimise biased outcomes in the use of AI By Nicholas Tyacke Alex Horder Alexandra de Zwart Jordan Davis +1 more... Show less Artificial Intelligence (AI) is already altering the way we live and work, providing both opportunities to grow and challenges to...
11/12/2024 9:47:00 AM DLA Piper Genomics Series: CRISPR/Cas patent disputes – the position in Australia By Nicholas Tyacke Alex May The development of Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR)/CRISPR-associated protein (Cas) systems for genome...
10/31/2024 4:30:17 PM Medicines Australia Code of Conduct – New Edition Released By Nicholas Tyacke Greg Bodulovic Alexandra de Zwart Hazel Pang +1 more... Show less On 30 October 2024, Medicines Australia (MA) formally adopted a new edition (Edition 20) of the MA Code of Conduct (MA Code), which will...
7/31/2024 8:01:04 AM Australia implements further vaping reforms By Greg Bodulovic Nicholas Tyacke Alexandra de Zwart Hazel Pang +1 more... Show less On 26 June 2024, Australia’s second stage vaping reform bill, the Therapeutic Goods and Other Legislation Amendment (Vaping Reforms) Bill...
7/25/2024 10:11:03 AM Australia Regulator Cracks Down on Unlawful Advertising of Medicinal Cannabis By Greg Bodulovic Nicholas Tyacke Alexandra de Zwart Hazel Pang +1 more... Show less Recent enforcement by the Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) indicates that the regulator is actively monitoring and...
4/9/2024 8:55:32 AM Australia’s Second Stage Vaping Reforms Bill Introduced By Greg Bodulovic Nicholas Tyacke Tudor Filaret Hazel Pang +1 more... Show less On 21 March 2024, the second stage of Australia’s vaping reforms bill was introduced before the Australian Parliament. The Therapeutic...
1/30/2024 9:22:45 AM Regulation of Life Sciences AI in Australia By Nicholas Tyacke Alexandra de Zwart Alex Horder Jordan Davis +1 more... Show less In an important development for life sciences and healthcare companies (et al), on 17 January 2024 and after receiving over 500...
1/23/2024 4:20:43 PM “March-in” rights and life sciences inventions in Australia: Is the position in Australia the same as under the US Bayh-Dole Act? By Nicholas Tyacke Greg Bodulovic Jess McKenna Recent statements and actions by the US Biden Administration regarding march-in rights and drug pricing have made these issues a hot...
12/4/2023 1:52:53 PM Vapes banned from January 2024 under Australian reforms By Greg Bodulovic Nicholas Tyacke Tudor Filaret Hazel Pang Shawn Wang +2 more... Show less The Australian Federal Government has announced the first stage of Australia’s vaping reforms, which are set to commence on 1 January...
11/15/2023 10:52:58 AM Unscripted mishap: Australian telehealth provider fined for advertising prescription medicines By Greg Bodulovic Nicholas Tyacke Tudor Filaret Hazel Pang +1 more... Show less The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has fined InstantScripts, a major Australian telehealth service provider, $742,500 for alleged...
10/10/2023 9:39:31 AM Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) seizes millions of dollars’ worth of vaping products By Greg Bodulovic Nicholas Tyacke Tudor Filaret Hazel Pang +1 more... Show less On 2 May 2023, the Australian Federal Government announced significant vaping reforms and allocated AU $737 million in the 2023-24 Budget...
9/20/2023 9:57:17 AM Sex bias, racial bias and AI – An ESG issue for the life sciences and healthcare sectors By Nicholas Tyacke Greg Bodulovic Alexandra de Zwart Alex Horder Jordan Davis +2 more... Show less It is increasingly important for organisations wishing to be good corporate citizens to have robust policies in place surrounding the...