Biotech Law

A Tech Entrepreneur Finds a Niche in Pouncing on Law-Breaking Pet Owners – msnbc.com

He created Fi-Shock, one of the first electric fences for dogs and livestock; Mark Electronics, a major electronics supplier; EDP Biotech, which is researching … And at any time a city can pass a law requiring all dogs to be … Continue reading

Kenya: Country Eyes GM Crops to Ensure Food Security – AllAfrica.com

A “Global Status of Commercialised Biotech/GM Crops” report cites the move by the government to set up a regulatory authority and enact a biosafety law as an indication that Kenya is likely to join South Africa, Burkina Faso and Egypt … Continue reading

Patents on Genes – Inner West courier

He is the author of “Gene Cartels: Biotech Patents in the Age of Free Trade … Peter Cashman Prof. Cashman is a law professor at Sydney Law School and an expert in class actions and complex litigation. He is appearing … Continue reading

Whitney Houston found dead in hotel – Worldnews.com

Since the 1990s, as a result of the recession, Houston has made efforts to diversify its economy by focusing on aerospace and health care/biotechnology and by reducing … to comply with any applicable law, regulation, legal proceeding or governmental …

Smoking out the real motives – Waterbury Republican-American

Smoking marijuana is “moderately effective in treating nausea and vomiting, appetite loss, and acute and chronic pain,” says the National Center for Biotechnology Information … “Advocates of a medical-marijuana law could tout the study’s …

Biotechnology lawyer lists Gold Coast condo – Blockshopper

Joanne McCafferty of Brush Hill Realtors is the listing agent. Michael Borun is a retired lawyer who established a biotechnology practice at the law firm Marshall Gerstein & Borun LLP. He joined the company in 1969. He received his B.S. … Continue reading

NovaBay Pharmaceuticals Provides Business Update and 2012 Outlook – Yahoo Finance

About NovaBay Pharmaceuticals, Inc. NovaBay Pharmaceuticals is a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on developing … any forward-looking statement except as required by law.

Generic insulin, cancer therapies? They’re coming – Los Angeles Times

The latest step toward implementing the law came Thursday, as the Food and Drug Administration … as generic drug manufacturers and biotechnology firms — many of them outside of the United States — begin to make and market these complex … Continue reading

Law professors see challenges, but not crisis (video) – Harvard Law School News

HLS Assistant Professor Glenn Cohen ’03, co-director of the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics, stated that author David Segal got many points wrong and several points right: “Essentially he doesn’t …

UPDATE 5-U.S. FDA sets draft rules for biotech drug copies – Reuters UK

Under the U.S. healthcare reform law passed in 2010, brand-name biotech drugs – ranging from relatively simple molecules like insulin to complex antibodies used to treat cancer – were granted a 12-year period of market exclusivity, after which …