In July, the Senate Armed Services Committee passed its version of the FY 2025 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which would make substantial changes to the rules for determining the “country of origin” of drugs for...more
Efforts to curtail U.S. reliance on biotechnology companies in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and prevent certain data of U.S. persons from being provided to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) have come to the fore this...more
On Friday, December 8, the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) opened for public comment its Draft Interagency Guidance Framework for Considering the Exercise of March-in...more
On 5 May 2021, U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai announced that the Biden Administration would support India and South Africa’s request for a World Trade Organization (WTO) waiver of intellectual property (IP) rights...more
5/12/2021
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Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Infectious Diseases ,
Intellectual Property Protection ,
Life Sciences ,
Patent Ownership ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Popular ,
TRIPS Agreement ,
Vaccinations ,
WTO
Companies in the life sciences and health care industry, like most companies, navigated unparalleled challenges in 2020. But unlike other industries, they had to do so while simultaneously facing the biggest challenge of all...more
In Tuesday's Report: FDA lists essential medicines and medical countermeasures, Trump plans health official replacement, FDA expands remote monitoring exemption list, WHO director self-quarantines, and other U.S. White House...more
Regarding the Trump Administration’s August 6, 2020 “Buy American” Executive Order, which was the subject of a prior client alert, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that it published a list of 223 drug and...more
Tuesday, 20 October 2020 -
President Trump’s executive order on essential medicines aims to encourage pharmaceutical companies to bring their manufacturing back to the U.S. But it may also have unintended consequences for...more
10/20/2020
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Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Dr. Anthony Fauci ,
Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) ,
Executive Orders ,
Financial Stimulus ,
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ,
Government Lockdown ,
Infectious Diseases ,
Life Sciences ,
Medical Devices ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Relief Measures ,
Supply Chain ,
Trump Administration
On August 6, 2020, U.S. President Donald Trump issued his much-anticipated "Buy American" Executive Order (EO), intended to increase and support domestic manufacture and Federal government procurement of "essential...more
8/10/2020
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Counterfeit Goods Regulation ,
Countermeasures ,
Department of Defense (DOD) ,
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ,
Executive Orders ,
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ,
Infrastructure ,
Life Sciences ,
Manufacturers ,
Medical Devices ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Prescription Drugs ,
Procurement Guidelines ,
Supply Chain ,
Trump Administration ,
USTR
We are pleased to provide you with the third annual installment of our Life Sciences and Health Care Horizons guide. For each of these guides, we have asked our industry thought leaders throughout the world to write about...more
2/26/2020
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AIDS ,
Analytics ,
Artificial Intelligence ,
Biosimilars ,
Biotechnology ,
Blockchain ,
California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) ,
Cyber Threats ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Department of Defense (DOD) ,
Digital Health ,
Drug Distribution ,
Drug Pricing ,
EU ,
Federal Funding ,
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
Health Technology ,
HIV ,
Incident Response Plans ,
Intellectual Property Protection ,
Life Sciences ,
Medical Device Data System ,
Medical Devices ,
Medical Software ,
Over The Counter Drugs (OTC) ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
PHI ,
Prescription Drugs ,
Procurement Guidelines ,
Regulatory Standards ,
Research and Development ,
Right to Try ,
Robotics ,
Supply Chain ,
Telehealth