Sentences with phrase «ground in pharmaceutical companies»

Following the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Wyeth v. Levine that FDA approval does not preempt state tort liability for drug makers, state court decisions like this one will be an important battle ground in pharmaceutical companies» product liability litigation.

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It is hard to believe, for example, that Canada could not in the end find common ground with the US on some extension of patent protection for pharmaceuticals, since it was able to do so in the just - completed negotiations with the EU, or that an extension of the term of copyright protection from 50 to 70 years from the agreed baseline would have much if any real practical impact on Canada although it would be seen as a gain by the US given the heavy copyright portfolios of US entertainment companies, allowing them an additional period of time to exploit their copyrighted content.

The reason computational biology never fully got off the ground before now, he says, is that pharmaceutical companies weren't yet grappling with the kinds of problems that are best - suited to computational biologists: finding useful signals in tremendously large sets of unsorted, noisy data.

The Supreme Court of the United States further lay the ground for this question in 2011 in William H. Sorrell, Attorney General of Vermont, et al., with a regulatory case involving the prohibition of sale of patient information by doctors to pharmaceutical companies for the purposes of data mining.