Jan
11
After 77 years, Italian Bankruptcy Law will soon retire. Yesterday, the Italian Government approved the new Code of Business Crisis and Insolvency. The law is now waiting to be formally enacted by the President of the Republic and published on the Official Journal (Gazzetta Ufficiale). It will enter into force after 18 months from the… continued
Jul
30
With a decision pronounced on 5 July 2018, the Regional Administrative Court (TAR) of Lazio upheld an appeal filed by Doc Generici S.r.l., an Italian pharmaceutical company that specializes in the development, manufacturing and sale of generic drugs. In the case, the appellant impugned the Italian Medicines Agency’s (AIFA) classification of an ezetimibe/simvastatin-based drug combination… continued
Jul
25
Yesterday the European Commission imposed fines for EUR 111 million in aggregate to four consumer electronics manufacturers for fixing distributors’ resale prices of their products on the internet, a commercial practice commonly referred to as Resale Price Maintenance (or RPM). RPM is a conduct by which suppliers restrict, contractually or through other behavior, the ability… continued
Jul
18
The reference for a preliminary ruling made by the District Court of Düsseldorf (Landgericht) followed a heated dispute between Pfizer Ireland Pharmaceuticals, Operations Support Group (Pfizer) and Orifarm GmbH (Orifarm) concerning parallel imports of Enbrel, a genetically engineered protein for the treatment of arthritis. The appellant – proprietor of a supplementary protection certificate (SPC) for… continued
Jul
5
The European Commission recently proposed an amendment to the supplementary protection certificate (SPC), a key regulation that grants additional intellectual property rights to patent holders on a wide range of biologically active compounds such as medicaments, veterinary drugs, herbicides and insecticides. The draft legislation, which was presented on 28 May 2018, calls for an “export… continued
Jun
4
On 20 December 2017, the Italian Competition Authority (or “ICA”) issued a rare infringement decision in an abuse of dominance investigation against the publisher of a local daily newspaper (“SIE”), which refused to deal with a player (the “complainant” or “Euregio”) in the downstream local market for daily media intelligence services. SIE publishes L’Adige, a… continued
