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In this issue: - Best Patent Practices Under the America Invents Act - CMS Issues Final Rule for Implementing Sunshine Act - New IP Litigation Team a Boon for Firm's Life Sciences and Technology Clients -...more
The need for innovation in healthcare has arguably never been greater. Originally Published in Navigating The Capital Crunch - April 15, 2013. ...more
Last week, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (“BARDA”) announced that it has used “other transactional authority” to enter into a novel, comprehensive...more
Earlier this week on 14 May, the Treasurer delivered the Australian Federal Budget for 2013-14. Whilst it contains no real surprises for the pharmaceutical or medical technology sectors, it shows how much the Pharmaceutical...more
In this issue’s installment of “Dealmaker’s Corner,” Jon Finger, a partner in our private equity group, had the opportunity to visit with Kyle Bradford, Managing Director with American Capital, Ltd., concerning the...more
Patton Boggs recently advised Satori Capital, a Dallas-based private equity firm, on its acquisition of Longhorn Health Solutions, Inc. Longhorn is headquartered in Austin, Texas and is a leading direct-to-home provider of...more
Entrepreneurs seeking angel funding should pay special attention to the recent Halo Report, a joint release by Silicon Valley Bank, CB Insights and Angel Resource Institute. The report looks at 783 deals including angel...more
This On the Subject outlines why hospitals and financial services and communications companies should pay attention to the recent executive order entitled “Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity.”...more
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the final regulations on the U.S. Sunshine Act on February 8, 2013. Transparency Reports and Reporting of Physician Ownership or Investment Interests, 78 Fed. Reg....more
Originally published in the Health Care Fraud Report, 17 HFRA 219, on 03/06/2013. The final rule (the ‘‘Final Rule’’) implementing the Physician Payments Sunshine Act (‘‘Sunshine Act’’), published in the Federal...more
In This Issue: - General Legislative - Agriculture & Food - Budget, Appropriations, and Sequestration - Cybersecurity - Education - Energy - Environment - Financial...more
Last month, the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), a trade association representing the U.S. venture capital industry, released the results of its MoneyTree Report on venture funding for 2012. The report, which is...more
As CES 2013 draws to a close, Michael Esquivel, a partner in Fenwick’s Start-ups and Venture Capital Group, identifies where the action is for entrepreneurs and investors in digital health and healthcare IT. According to...more
Originally published in Medical Research Law & Policy Report, 12 MRLR 4, 01/02/2013. Regardless of what happens with the fiscal cliff negotiations in Congress and the Obama administration, research funding will...more
In 1949, the Washington Legislature enacted what has become known as the “anti-rebate statute,” codified as RCW Chapter 19.68. Rep. Eileen Cody recently asked the state Attorney General (AG)’s Office whether this statute...more
The Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) published in the December 7, 2012 Federal Register final regulations and released other interim guidance on the implementation of the new excise tax on...more
Patrick Kellermann from LeClairRyan returns with a timely post on data security. When people hear “data security” they think technical jargon: firewalls, passwords, encryption, yada, yada, yada. They leave it up to...more
In this issue: - First-Mover Advantage: The Case for Investing in Life Science - Medical Device User Fee Amendments of 2012: A Fact Sheet - Life Science Venture Financings for WSGR Clients - Eight...more
Good news for patients and stem cell researchers alike. On August 24th, the United States Courts of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit affirmed the District of Columbia court decision granting the government’s...more
Venture investment in healthcare convergence technologies soared in the first half of 2012. According to a recent report from Burrill & Co, digital health, into which they group healthcare IT, mobile health and wireless...more
On May 22, 2012, the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute ("PCORI a private nonprofit entity established by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, announced that it will be seeking applications to...more
General Legislative The House is not in session on Monday, May 14, 2012. The House will meet at 12:00 p.m. on Tuesday, May 15, for morning hour and 2:00 p.m. for legislative business. On Tuesday the House will consider...more
In this issue: - New Procedures for Challenging Patent Validity - Aggressive Healthcare Fraud Enforcement Likely to Continue in 2012 - Life Sciences: The Rodney Dangerfield of Venture Capital -...more
Major Changes Regarding Investigator Disclosures, Obligations of Institutions, and Public Access to Information The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a Final Rule on August 25 that amends the 1995...more
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued draft guidance on May 24 describing its current thinking on the disclosure of financial interests of clinical investigators1 updating the prior decade-old guidance issued on the...more
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