Apr 17, 2023 Plausibility of inventions: the decision of the EPO Enlarged Board of Appeal in G 2/21 By Massimiliano Tiberio Introduction On March 23rd, 2023, the Enlarged Board of Appeal of the EPO issued the long-awaited decision concerning the concept of...
Nov 15, 2022 Clinical Trials and Privacy Matters: A Cross-border Guide By Marco de Morpurgo This week our Life Sciences team published the first edition of its Cross-border Guide to Clinical Trials and Privacy. The Guide will...
Aug 03, 2022 China's emerging data protection laws bring challenges for conducting investigations in China By Sammy Fang Han Liang In recent years, China has introduced a number of major data protection laws, including the Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL)...
Jul 14, 2022 UK: New National Strategy for Health Data By James Clark The UK’s Department for Health and Social Care (“DHSC”) has published a major strategy document (‘Data saves lives: reshaping health and...
May 31, 2022 The European Health Data Space – 5 Things You Need to Know By James Clark What is the European Health Data Space?On 3 May 2022, the EU Commission published a draft Regulation on the European Health Data Space...
Apr 05, 2022 The Spanish authorities designate an independent supervisory body to ensure compliance with the clinical trials Code of Conduct. By Elisa Lorenzo After the publication of the Code of conduct regulating the processing of personal data in the field of clinical trials and other...
Mar 02, 2022 Spain publishes the first code of conduct on the processing of personal data on clinical trials By Elisa Lorenzo Paula Gonzalez de Castejón Llano-Ponte The Spanish Data Protection Commissioner (“AEPD”) has recently approved the “Code of conduct regulating the processing of personal data...
Feb 25, 2021 Interim EDPB guidance on the application of GDPR to health research By James Clark In response to a set of questions from the European Commission, the European Data Protection Board (“EDPB”) has published some high level...