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