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09 Dec 2011
Government plans for NHS patient medical records to be shared with private research companies do not appear to address concerns previously expressed by researchers over the anonymisation of data and how that information is accessed.
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06 Dec 2011
The Government will implement EU proposals that will allow charities and universities to share services without charging each other VAT, according to proposals published in today's draft Finance Bill 2012.
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05 Dec 2011
The Government is likely to change patent laws because some pharmaceutical companies are at risk of breaking patent law when carrying out clinical testing, the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) has said.
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09 Nov 2011
The human protein Neutrokine-alpha and the discovery of its underlying gene sequence did have enough of an industrial application to merit patent protection, the Supreme Court has ruled. It overturned a Court of Appeal ruling that had said that the patent's...
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25 Aug 2011
Google has agreed to pay $500m to settle a US investigation into its advertising of Canadian medicines, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) has said.
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19 Aug 2011
A pharmaceutical company's use of Twitter to promote medicines discredited the industry, a regulatory body has ruled.
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01 Aug 2011
Isolating genes from human DNA structures is patentable, the US Court of Appeals has ruled.
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01 Jul 2011
Personal information belonging to EU users of US-owned cloud-based services could be shared with US law enforcers without the user being informed, Microsoft has said.
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