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Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 201: SHL Medical’s Investment in the Carolinas with...

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This week, Heather and Lauren welcome Kimberlee Steele, the Managing Director for North America of SHL Medical, a world leader in the design, development, and manufacture of autoinjectors, pen injectors, and drug delivery...more

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Key Takeaways | Pharma and MedTech Services Market Overview With McKinsey & Company

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During this session, McDermott Partner Kristian Werling and Jeff Smith, a senior partner at McKinsey & Company, shared insights across the pharma and MedTech services industries, including key trends and opportunities shaping...more

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Top Legal Considerations for the GCs and CFOs in the Life Sciences Industry in 2024

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The top legal issues in 2024 for the life sciences field reflect the complex and changing legal landscape that the industry is navigating, encompassing drug pricing, regulatory challenges, and broader societal and governance...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

HHS Addresses the Growing Influence of Artificial Intelligence in Health Care

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged as a major player in the realm of health care, promising to completely transform­ its delivery. With AI’s remarkable ability to analyze data, learn, solve problems, and make decisions,...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Tech Transfer in the WTO—What’s in It for Africa? And for the Rest of the World?

The “African Group” in the World Trade Organization (WTO) is pushing for discussions—and potentially renegotiation of international trading rules—on how developing countries do and can acquire technology to build resilience...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

IP Toolbox Is Crucial In AI-Powered Drug Discovery

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Navigating the complex landscape of drug discovery requires innovative strategies and interdisciplinary collaborations spanning biotechnology, pharmacology, medicine and engineering. As the cost of developing new drugs...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

2022 Technology and Life Sciences IPO Report

In this issue of the 2022 Technology and Life Sciences IPO Report, we present analysis related to 10 initial public offerings (IPOs), valued at over $75 million, completed by U.S.-based technology and life sciences companies...more

Fenwick & West Life Sciences Group

Big Tech Continues Foray Into Healthcare, Opening New Opportunities for Digital Health Startups

As the financial markets continue to struggle, digital health companies are conserving resources, slowing hiring and minding their burn rate given the uncertainty around the current economic slowdown and whether the economy...more

Knobbe Martens

Osteoconductive Filament Developed for 3D Printed Implants

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Evonik is a specialty chemical company developing biomaterials that serve as metal-free alternatives to traditional bone implants. Evonik’s VESTAKEEP product line includes an osteoconductive polyether ether ketone (PEEK) – a...more

Proskauer - Life Sciences

Update on Artificial Intelligence: USPTO Urges Federal Circuit to Affirm Decision That AI Cannot Qualify as an “Inventor”

In three previous blog posts, we have discussed recent inventorship issues surrounding Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) and its implications for life sciences innovations – focusing specifically on scientist Stephen Thaler’s...more

Knobbe Martens

NeoChord Announces Successful Completion of First-in-Human Procedure with its Mitral Chordal Repair Technology

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NeoChord, Inc. (“NeoChord”) announced on October 4, 2021 that it successfully completed a first-in-human procedure with the NeXuS Transcatheter Mitral Chordal Repair (TMVr) device NeoChord is developing. NeoChord also...more

Fenwick & West Life Sciences Group

Rock Health Summit Brings Together Brightest Minds in Digital Health

In the technology sector, entrepreneurs are often told to “move fast and break things.” But breaking things is something that won’t work in healthcare, so, as an alternative, innovators may consider “moving fast and keeping...more

Proskauer - Life Sciences

Update on Artificial Intelligence: Court Rules that AI Cannot Qualify As “Inventor”

Striking a blow to patent applicants seeking to assert inventorship by artificial intelligence (“AI”) systems, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia ruled on September 3, 2021 that an AI machine cannot...more

Proskauer - Life Sciences

Artificial Intelligence as the Inventor of Life Sciences Patents?

The question whether an artificial intelligence (“AI”) system can be named as an inventor in a patent application has obvious implications for the life science community, where AI’s presence is now well established and...more

Fenwick & West Life Sciences Group

IPO Life Sciences Outlook: COVID-19 Vaccine Innovation Could Boost IPO Numbers to Another Record High

The life sciences sector will likely be one of the major drivers in what some analysts predict as the beginning of the largest economic expansion in recent history. ...more

Hogan Lovells

CMS delays “reasonable and necessary” definition, expedited breakthrough device coverage process rule

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On March 17, 2021, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published a notice in the Federal Register delaying the effective date of the final rule titled, “Medicare Program; Medicare Coverage of Innovative...more

Fenwick & West Life Sciences Group

Digital Health IPO Class of 2020: How Are They Performing Now?

In prior years, it was almost a foregone conclusion that promising digital health startups would be acquired by other companies before having the opportunity to debut on the public markets. However, that changed in 2019,...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

Cancer Vaccines: The Fourth Pillar of Anti-Cancer Therapy?

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Innovative technologies are being deployed to address the Western world’s major killer: cancer. Traditionally, cancer treatment has included surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation, but recently, the development of targeted...more

Polsinelli

CMS Proposes Medicare Coverage Pathway for FDA-Designated Breakthrough Technologies

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On September 1st, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed a rule offering medical device manufacturers Medicare coverage upon FDA clearance or approval when their products have been designated by the U.S....more

MoFo Life Sciences

Bill Proposes 10 Additional Years for COVID-19 Inventions

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A proposed bill offers a potential boon to patent owners. If passed, the “Facilitating Innovation to Fight Coronavirus Act” will add ten years to the patent term of eligible inventions. However, the bill will temporarily...more

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FDA announces new expedited program for devices expected to significantly improve the safety of existing technologies

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On 19 September 2019 the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA or the agency) released the draft guidance document entitled "Safer Technologies Program for Medical Devices" (STeP), effectively following through on the...more

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