In-house roundup: How Ocado integrated IP into its workflows; UCB interview; AIPPI Pharma Day roundup

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In-house roundup: How Ocado integrated IP into its workflows; UCB interview; AIPPI Pharma Day roundup

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How Ocado integrated IP into its workflows

Lucy Wojcik, head of IP at UK online supermarket Ocado, tells Patent Strategy how the business became R&D focused and then embedded IP into its workflows to better protect its innovations Read more...

Q&A: Patent term extension at a glance

Manisha Desai, associate general patent counsel at UCB Biopharma in Brussels, tells Patent Strategy about the patent term extension developments she is monitoring Read more...

AIPPI Pharma Day roundup: SPCs and more

Pharma Day at AIPPI focused on the controversial ‘pay for delay’ topic and recent developments on patent term extension and SPCs Read more...

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