Practical Law IP&IT subscribers now have access to the fully revised and updated Life Sciences multi-jurisdictional guide to life sciences law and lawyers worldwide.

The Life Sciences multi-jurisdictional guide includes a table summarising pharmaceutical patent protection and data and marketing exclusivity in key jurisdictions, including information on the authorities that issue patents and guidance available, how patent protection can be extended and data and marketing exclusivity protection periods for medicinal products.

The guide also features Q&A guides to Medicinal product regulation and product liability that give an overview of issues including pricing and state funding, manufacturing, marketing, clinical trials, advertising, labelling, patents, trade marks, and product liability. The Pharmaceutical IP and competition law Q&A chapters give an overview of pharmaceutical patents, trade marks, competition law, patent licensing, generic entry, abuse of dominance and parallel imports. In addition, answers to questions can be compared across jurisdictions to assist cross-border transactions (see the Medicinal product regulation and product liability: Country Q&A tool and the Pharmaceutical IP and Competition Law: Country Q&A tool).