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Penningtons Manches Cooper appointed as legal advisor to Advanced Research + Invention Agency (ARIA)
Posted: 28/11/2023
Penningtons Manches Cooper’s Birmingham and Oxford offices have been appointed as legal advisors to the Advanced Research + Invention Agency (ARIA), a new R&D agency built to unlock scientific and technological breakthroughs to benefit everyone.......>>
The future of corporate sustainability part 1: the corporate sustainability reporting directive
Posted: 02/12/2022
Governments and organisations globally recognise that businesses of the future must operate in a more responsible and sustainable way than ever before. On 6 November 2022, heads of state and other climate stakeholders gathered in Egypt for COP27, the twenty-seventh conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention......>>
Same old, same old but different: the proposed UK framework for medical device regulations
Posted: 21/11/2022
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) published its consultation response in June 2022. To the relief of the majority of stakeholders in this area, this will result in new regulations for the United Kingdom that broadly align with the EU Medical Devices Regulations and the In Vitro Diagnostic Device Regulations......>>
The In Vitro Diagnostic Medical Devices Regulation is here — a closer look at what you need to know
Posted: 06/07/2022
As with Regulation (EU) 2017/745, the Medical Devices Regulation (MDR), which simultaneously celebrates its one-year anniversary since its application from 26 May 2021, the IVDR intends to provide comprehensive and harmonised regulation of the supply of in-vitro diagnostic medical devices (IVD) such as blood glucose monitors......>>
The Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games – the most sustainable Commonwealth Games yet
Posted: 27/06/2022
The Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games is set to be a landmark event; not just for the city itself, but for its influence on the sustainability of large scale event management and the importance of supply chain sustainability going forwards. Since the UK last hosted the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow in 2014, sustainability has moved up the agenda......>>
Clinical trial management agreements with CROs: Cardiorentis AG v IQVIA Limited
Posted: 19/05/2022
Most life sciences organisations will utilise a CRO (contract research organisation) at some stage of their product development lifecycle, whether for a new drug or a medical device. This ruling shines some light on how contractual documentation and industry standards of practice will be interpreted by the English courts......>>
UK court dismisses DABUS – an AI machine cannot be an inventor
Posted: 14/12/2021
As the development of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning accelerates, it was inevitable that the courts would be called to answer the question of whether or not a machine can be an inventor for the purposes of applying for a patent. On 21 September 2021, the Court of Appeal handed down its decision......>>
Transforming innovation into impact for climate solutions
Posted: 16/11/2021
As the focus on science and innovation at COP26 has signalled, science and innovation play a crucial role in addressing the climate crisis by delivering the technologies needed to address the challenges we face: the need to end our reliance on fossil fuels, to integrate clean energy solutions into the way we live, to remove carbon from our atmosphere, to mitigate the effects of rising temperatures on our planet and to combat loss of habitat and biodiversity......>>
National Security and Investment Act: implications for life sciences businesses
Posted: 13/05/2021
The National Security and Investment Act 2021 represents a major change in UK regulation of takeover and investment transactions, giving the Government power to intervene in a wide range of transactions on national security grounds. The new powers can be applied to any business but a mandatory notification regime applies to 17 sectors...…>>
A divergent path: medical devices regulation and the Medicines and Medical Devices Act 2021
Posted: 21/04/2021
On 26 May 2021, the UK’s medical device laws will diverge from EU law. This is the end of the transition period for the EU Medical Device Regulations (EU MDR) in the EU and sees the full application of the EU MDR across all member states......>>
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