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Europe’s increased focus on the environment and corporate sustainability: an expensive game changer for the pharma industry...

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Over the past decade, the European Union has enacted a host of new legislation to protect the environment, promote sustainability, and tackle climate change, including the European Green Deal to new reporting and due...more

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Two years on from its launch, how has the UPC impacted European patent litigation in the life sciences sector?

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The UPC has been reshaping European patent litigation since its launch in June 2023. More than 480 patents have now been litigated in the court, and the number of actions is steadily increasing. Initially, major...more

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Medical devices: EU Commission proposes MDR and IVDR revision

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The EU Commission published its 170-page proposal on revisions of the Medical Device Regulation (EU) 2017/745 (MDR) and the In Vitro Diagnostic Regulation (EU) 2017/746 (IVDR) on December 16, 2025. After MDR and IVDR became...more

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Q&A: Why data provenance is critical to AI-powered drug discovery

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Pharmaceutical research and development is becoming more expensive and taking longer. Innovative AI scale-ups and platforms are addressing this by quickly accumulating vast datasets, but the larger companies that buy them...more

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Under the microscope: shareholder activism in life sciences and healthcare

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The life sciences and healthcare sector is a prominent target for shareholder activists. In 2025 a record 255 activist campaigns were launched worldwide, surpassing the previous high of 249 set in 2018, according to research...more

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China’s pharma innovators pursue a range of deal structures to support global expansion

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Thanks to its scientific skills base, growing prowess in AI and a policy environment that supports rapid clinical trials, China has become one of the world’s leading markets for pharmaceutical innovation. Here we explore how...more

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Today's Emerging Technology Is Tomorrow's IP Battlefront

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In the rapidly evolving landscape of technology, the innovations of today often become tomorrow's legal battlegrounds. In virtually every emerging technology there are startups and new players at every corner. In the...more

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Why Smart Startups Should Publish Their Secrets Instead of Patenting Them

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I recently spoke with a founder who had obtained a patent but wasn’t happy with it. Not because the patent was invalid. Not because the attorney made mistakes. But because the patent included a feature that made it easy for...more

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10 Biggest Mistakes Businesses Make When Deploying AI Chatbots – And 10 Fixes You Can Make Today

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Your business is probably already using AI-powered chatbots to handle customer service inquiries, screen job applicants, answer employee HR questions, and manage internal workflows. But legal exposure is growing fast,...more

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Latest Federal Court Cases: ironSource Ltd. v. Digital Turbine, Inc. - April 2026

ironSource Ltd. v. Digital Turbine, Inc., Appeal No. 2024-1831 (Fed. Cir. April 7, 2026) - In its only precedential patent opinion last week, the Federal Circuit dismissed an appeal from a post-grant review in which...more

The Volkov Law Group

BIS Imposes $1.6 Million Civil Penalty in Enforcement Action Involving Unlicensed Exports to Entity List Parties

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On March 27, 2026, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) issued an Order resolving an administrative enforcement matter involving Solventum Corporation of St. Paul, Minnesota, arising under...more

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From Policies to Practice: What Regulators Expect from Privacy Programs

During a panel at the IAPP’s Global Privacy Summit, privacy regulators offered candid insights into how they are enforcing privacy laws and laid breadcrumbs for building a compliance program that minimizes legal risks....more

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Dealmaker's Digest: A Top 10 Bulletin - April 2026

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In Dealmaker’s Digest, read the top 10 latest developments in global transactions. We offer insights into M&A activity across industries and borders....more

Robins Kaplan LLP

In re Entresto (sacubitril/valsartan) Patent Litigation (Novartis Pharms. Corp. v. MSN Labs. Private Ltd.

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In a previous case, the court entered final judgment that MSN’s ANDA product infringed claims 1-4 of the ’659 patent. In the current case, Novartis accuses MSN of infringing the same patent....more

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Agentic AI as Evidence: When Autonomous Systems Become Witnesses in Investigations

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Artificial intelligence in 2026 is defined by the rise of “agentic AI,” or “AI agents”, systems with varying levels of autonomy that are “able to perceive, reason, and act on their own.”...more

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Getting Form 483 responses right: FDA’s March 2026 draft guidance explained

In its March 2026 draft guidance, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) outlined its current thinking on how drug and certain product manufacturers should approach Form 483 responses to inspectional observations issued at...more

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Brand Protection Tips for Businesses During World Cup 2026

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Picture this. It is June 2026, your place in LA, Miami, or Kansas City is full, the TVs are finally behaving, and your staff has perfected the art of pouring and pivoting when a match swings in two minutes....more

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Should You Revise Your Insider Trading Policy to Address “Prediction Markets”?

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Once I heard the news that NBA star Giannis Antetokounmpo had invested in a “prediction market,” my interest was piqued and I learned that these decentralized platforms can be used for anyone to wager on company-specific...more

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FCC Announces Tentative Agenda for April 2026 Meeting

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) released a tentative agenda for the FCC’s April Open Meeting scheduled for Thursday, April 30 at 10:30 a.m. ET. The items on the April agenda reflect three of Chairman...more

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Trump Tariff Tracker – April 13, 2026

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Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has announced that the first phase of the IEEPA tariff refund process will open on April 20, 2026, through its Consolidated Administration and Processing of Entries (CAPE) program in the...more

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Same ‘prompt,’ different responses: Anthropic supply chain risk designation stands in D.C. Circuit, for now, splitting from...

The Anthropic supply chain risk designation dispute just got messier. As we wrote about last week, in March a California federal court issued a preliminary injunction against the government’s designation of Anthropic as a...more

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What Marketing Attribution Should Look Like for Law Firms

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Most law firm marketing leaders already know their tracking is incomplete. The question is usually where to start, and the answer keeps getting deferred because the options feel either too simple to matter or too complex to...more

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CFTC Settlement in Singh Matter Highlights Cooperation Credit and Aiding-and-Abetting Claims

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On April 1, 2026, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (the “CFTC” or the “Commission”) announced that the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York entered a supplemental consent order (“the...more

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From Competence to Judgment: How AI Compresses Litigation Work and Why That Makes Judgment More Important

Artificial intelligence has entered legal practice with unusual speed and reach. Within a brief period, tools that can organize information, generate analysis, and structure legal arguments have become embedded across...more

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AI Legal Watch: April 2026

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On March 20, 2026, the White House released a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence. The framework sets forth legislative recommendations for seven policy areas:...more

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