Intellectual Property
Feb. 15, 2011
Medical Device Approvals to Speed Up
Medical device manufacturers and their lawyers hope the first pilot project in the FDA's Innovation Pathway program will blaze a path for expedited regulatory approval, but they are skeptical that the program will work.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
Cutting-edge technology that could turn war veterans and other amputees into bionic men and women will be pushed through the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's medical device approval process in a new program to speed up reviews of innovative medical devices.
Device manufacturers and their lawyers hope the test case for the FDA's Innovation Pathway program - a robotic prosthetic arm develope...
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