20 February 13:00-14:00Conference room "Skogen"

Navigating the IP and regulatory frameworks to put new medicinal products on the market with optimum protection, can best be described as a maze.

In this session, we will discuss how you can create a solid and long market exclusivity for your new medicines.

Bringing a product to the market most often involves having good investor relations, and to keep the competition at bay and get more than return on investment you will need to understand how you best combine strategies for IP protection and regulatory exclusivity.

The key to competitiveness, license revenues and new investments lies in a strong patent portfolio that protects even when market entry is far away. By combining this with various types of regulatory exclusivity when it's time to put the product on the market, you can maximize your protection. We will focus on discussing the critical decisions required, and the timing of such decisions.

Let us guide you through the maze to minimize the risk of losing market share to others.

Speakers:

  • Joanna Applequist, AWA, PhD, Partner, European Patent Attorney. 
  • Marie Gårdmark, RegSmart Life Science, PhD, Regulatory Advisor.
  • Louise Jonshammar, AWA, Partner, Attorney at Law

State aid

Participation fee: This event is sponsored by Umeå Biotech Incubator (UBI) with support from the European Union. There is no actual fee for participating. For delegates from the industry, state-aid/de-minimis will be accounted for corresponding to 150 SEK per person.

State aid & de-minimis: Umeå Biotech Incubator is obliged to account for activities they arrange, and support they provide, directed to specific companies or a group of companies where the receiving companies do not pay market price for the participation. The value of this support is accounted for as state-aid. 

Small amounts of State aid (‘de minimis’ aid) are exempted from State aid control, as they are deemed to have no impact on competition and trade in the internal market of the European Union (EU). De minimis aid indeed refers to small amounts of State aid to undertakings (companies) that do not have to be notified to the European Commission by the EU Member States. 

The maximum amount is € 300,000 for each undertaking over 3 years.

De minimis can also be granted to large companies that are not entitled to larger sums of state-aid under Article 22. 

Read more on state-aid and de-minimis here

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