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09:00

Registration and Coffee

09:30

Welcome and Chair’s Introduction

Morning themes: European Transparency, Regulatory & Market Access

09:35

Panel Session: Transparency of clinical trial data

  • EMA position on clinical trial and regulatory data
  • Clinical Trial Data – Patient Information Focus
  • Importance of Integrity as well as Transparency
  • Challenges from in-house perspective

Moderated by Helen Roberts

10:35

Plenary: Pricing reimbursement update – 2016 EU commission report

  • 2016 EU Commission report
  • Developments in UK & EU HTA
  • Discounts & transparency

10:55

Morning Coffee

11:30

A choice of two breakout sessions:

A – Biosimilars: Regulatory Developments

  • Update on latest litigation
  • Patent challenges
  • Regulatory approvals
  • Future strategies
  • Sergio Napolitano Director Legal Affairs & Trade Policy, Medicines for Europe
  • Paul England Senior Associate & Professional Support Lawyer , Taylor Wessing
  • Simon Cohen Partner and Heads the International Patents Group, Taylor Wessing

B – Product Liability Claims: Lessons learned from cases

  • Patient rights – status update
  • Class action developments
  • Lessons learned and future strategies
  • Competition – agreements and avoiding pitfalls of anti trust violation

12:20

Lunch

Afternoon themes: Data Privacy, Digital Lifesciences, IP and Competition Law

13:20

Panel Session: Privacy management in life sciences

  • Personal data in life sciences and the impact of technology convergence
  • Global landscape and review of the latest/final form of GDPR – implications for accountability, record keeping, patient profiling, data analysis, cross region data movement
  • Within the context of new obligations and risks, how can counsel define and manage compliance?

Moderated by Simon Crossley

14:20

A choice of two breakout sessions

C – Collaboration agreements – what are the best jurisdictions to resolve disputes?

D – Understanding competition law and updates

  • Changes in SPCs and Patents
  • Recent, pending and possible future referrals to the CJEU and EFTA Court
  • Reverse payment patent settlements? High-level case law
  • Second medical use patents
  • Competition – agreements and avoiding pitfalls of anti trust violation
  • Cameron Firth Partner - Joint Head of Life Sciences & Healthcare, King & Wood Mallesons

15:10

Afternoon Tea

15:40

Panel Session: M-health, use of apps, security

  • New apps and legal challenges – case examples
  • The experiments of using patient focus groups
  • How to communicate with patients

16:30

Closing comments from chair followed by networking drinks