Contents

pp v-vi

Notes on the contributors

pp vii-x

Preface

pp xi-xii

Foreword by Francis G. Jacobs

pp xiii-xiv

Editors' note

pp xv-xv

Table of cases

pp xvi-xxvi

Table of treaties, European legislative instruments and national legislation

pp xxvii-xxxvi

Introduction

pp 1-8

Part I - Free movement of goods and persons, competition and intellectual property

pp 9-10

1 - The free movement of goods I: pharmaceuticals, patents and parallel trade

pp 11-24

2 - The free movement of goods II: pharmaceuticals, trade marks and parallel imports

pp 25-44

3 - The free movement of health care professionals in the European Community

pp 45-75

4 - EC competition law, pharmaceuticals and intellectual property: recent developments

pp 76-90

Part II - European drug regulation

pp 91-92

5 - Data protection and abridged applications for marketing authorisations in the pharmaceutical industry

pp 93-136

6 - The role of the European Medicines Evaluation Agency in the harmonisation of pharmaceutical regulation

pp 137-154

Part III - Biotechnology

pp 155-156

7 - The morality clauses of the Directive on the Legal Protection of Biotechnological Inventions: conflict, compromise and the patent community

pp 157-182

Part IV - Product liability and transnational health care litigation

pp 183-184

8 - The development risk defence and the European Court of Justice; increased injury costs and the Supplementary Protection Certificate

pp 185-204

9 - Transnational health care litigation and the Private International Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1995, Part III

pp 205-230

Index

pp 231-241