Healthcare

Healthcare | Life Sciences

Debra M. Perry | McCarter & English, LLP

Building on the FDA’s goals and strategies for creating a national evaluation system for medical devices, the FDA has recently increased its focus on collaboration with the medical device community, as well as patient involvement, to promote public health with high-quality and safe medical...

Healthcare | Medical Devices

Stephen Schaefer | Fish & Richardson

Stephen Schaefer of Fish & Richardson discusses emerging trends in patenting medical devices, the challenges and opportunities ahead at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, or PTAB, and how a shifting patent landscape has affected the medical device industry. His remarks have been edited for...

Healthcare

Salvatore J. Bauccio | McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC

The senior care and housing merger and acquisition market – which includes skilled nursing, assisted living and independent living – has been red hot throughout 2014 and 2015. According to Irving Levin Associates, Inc., senior care M&A set a record in 2014; and for the first half of...