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LSPN North America Fall 2024

October 2024

HGF are proud to be platinum sponsors of LSPN North America Fall 2024.

This year’s event will be held in San Francisco on Tuesday 15th and Wednesday 16th of October 2024. This industry-leading event presents an unrivalled gathering of in-house patent counsel from leading pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. LSPN provides an extensive platform for the most innovative patent holders in the industry to address the challenges they face and explore solutions.

Our Head of Chemistry, Andrew Wells will be speaking on the session ‘EU Clinical Trials Regulations – IP Considerations’ and Head of Life Sciences, Kate Taylor and Partner Mike Nelson will also be hosting a roundtable session on ‘Navigating Clinical Trial Disclosure Requirements’.

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