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IAM Pharma & Biotech IP Summit 2020 – London

January 2020

Event date: 28th January 2020

HGF is a gold sponsor at IAM Pharma & Biotech IP Summit on 28th January 2020 with Partner Douglas Drysdale and Patent Director Dr Emma Longland attending the event.

The life sciences are in a period of dramatic change and innovation with developments in new technologies challenging traditional IP strategies and business models. IAM’s Pharma and Biotech IP will bring together leading in-house practitioners and expert counsel to discuss next-generation strategies for protecting and exploiting cutting-edge innovation.

HGF Partner Douglas Drysdale will be attending and joining a panel to discuss Protecting the next generation of therapies:

A wave of cutting-edge technologies – from personalised medicines to gene and cell therapies – have become the focus of innovation in the life sciences, raising new challenges for IP professionals. An expert panel will shed light on:

  • The patentability questions raised by new technologies
  • How to gain the strongest possible protection for these technologies
  • Relevant international differences

HGF Patent Director Dr Emma Longland will also be attending.

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