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CEFI Foundation

CENTRE FOR STUDIES FOR THE PROMOTION OF RESEARCH

The CEFI Foundation’s permanent aim is to promote and support research and technological development, especially regarding the pharmaceutical industry

THE FOUNDATION

The CEFI Foundation’s permanent aim is to promote and support research and technological development, especially in regards to the pharmaceutical industry.
It carries out its activities through:
  • Legal analysis of current issues regarding innovation.
  • Authoring studies and reports.
  • Editing publications and other dissemination activities.
  • Training: organising seminars and conferences and collaborating on events related to its aims.
  • It carries out, promotes, and participates in institutional and representational activities connected with its objectives.

AIMS

Legal protection of inventions (patents, trade marks, data protection in pharmaceutical registration, etc.)

Legal analysis of European and Spanish issues in the pharmaceutical industry

Contributing to developing pharmaceutical law

Promoting research and innovation

Institutional collaboration in accordance with the Foundation’s aims and programmes.

PRIORITIES

  • Defending and protecting innovation and intellectual property
  • Legal studies, analysing and discussing current issues that affect the protection of innovation and the market entry of drugs.
  • Dissemination of knowledge about industrial and intellectual property, competition, and ethics.

OUR CONTRIBUTIONS

Technical/legal and position studies on the main topics having to do with protecting inventions, pharmaceutical and innovation law, and related law (competition, advertising, etc.).
Providing educational courses and seminars and analysing and discussing innovation, industrial property, competition and regulatory aspects of medicine.
Training in specific areas of pharmaceutical law.
Institutional Collaboration. Participation in the public information process of legislative projects.
Documentation Service. Information provided through a periodical Newsletter on legislation, jurisprudence and matters having to do with the topics the Foundation focuses on.
The ‘Comunicaciones en propiedad industrial y derecho de la competencia’ journal covers the latest issues on industrial and intellectual property, competition, advertising, and ethics. Cuadernos de Derecho Farmacéutico deals with analysing the latest and most interesting issues concerning drugs.

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

  • President: Moisés Ramírez Justo
  • First vice president: Fernando Moreno Pedraz
  • Second vice president: Javier de Urquía Martí
  • Secretary : Alfonso Gallego Montoya
  • Director : Nuria García García
  • María Alonso Burgaz
  • Irene Andrés Justi
  • Laura Badenes Torrens
  • Anna Bayó Busta
  • Mireia Castro Román
  • María Cedó Perpinyà
  • Victoria Fernández López
  • Ana Martín Quero
  • Silvia Martínez Prieto
  • Bárbara Muñoz Figueras
  • Jorge Muñoz Fuentes
  • Ariadna Padilla Romero
  • Katia Piñol Torres
  • Elisabet Rojano-Vendrell

BODIES

CEDEF

Aim
Academic Advisory Board
Aim

The Centre for Studies on European Pharmaceutical Law (CEDEF) is an internal body of the CEFI Foundation that was established in 1994 to address the study of legal and ethical aspects of medicine at a national and European level. Over the years, CEDEF has witnessed the evolution in the field of protection and regulation of pharmaceutical and drug innovation. CEDEF’s aims include carrying out studies and research, organising seminars, and participating in proposed legislative changes on technical/legal aspects of medicine, among others. It has been organised through an Academic Advisory Board and collaboration agreements with Universities and the government.

Academic Advisory Board

It has an Academic Advisory Board, the CEDEF Board, made up of trustees of the CEFI Foundation, lawyers, industry members, and university professors
. To carry out its activities, it collaborates through reciprocal agreements with the Ministry of Health, the Spanish Patent and Trade Mark Office, and universities including Universidad de Barcelona, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Universidad de Alcalá, Universidad Francisco de Vitoria, Universidad de Granada and Université Victor Segalen Bordeaux.

IDEI

Industrial Law and Ethics Institute (IDEI)
Editorial Board
Industrial Law and Ethics Institute (IDEI)

The Industrial Law and Ethics Institute (IDEI) is an internal body of the CEFI Foundation. It was established in 1996 with a clear aim within the field of technological research and development: protecting it through industrial property. Its slogan is ‘Innovation, law, and society’.
Its mission is to ensure the legal protection of research, especially in the field of industrial property and related laws: intellectual property, competition law and advertising law.
Its aims are to promote the most advanced industrial law, to press for its application and dissemination and to promote industrial law education.
It meets its aims by carrying out studies and research on Spanish, European, and international legal regulations on industrial property, and it organises courses and seminars on industrial law and ethics.

Editorial Board

IDEI’s Board is made up of lawyers, industry members and university professors. They are all experts on areas including industrial and intellectual property, advertising, competition, and ethics.

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