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April 30, 2018
Innovator drug companies will face challenges but complementary guidelines benefiting innovators, including a potential five-year patent term extension, may pacify concerns
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April 27, 2018
Advocate General Wathelet has rejected the UK court’s suggestion that “core inventive advance” is a relevant consideration in determining whether a basic patent protects an active ingredient within the meaning of Article 3(a)
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April 27, 2018
Guidance includes stipulating that for pending trials in which a panel has instituted only on some challenges in the petition, the panel may issue an order supplementing the institution decision to institute on all challenges raised in the petition
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April 27, 2018
The UK government ratifying the agreement to establish a Unified Patent Court for Europe shows it is serious about the court. The big uncertainty now is a German constitutional complaint against the UPC
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April 26, 2018
Managing IP presents this year’s leading female intellectual property practitioners, according to IP STARS research
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April 26, 2018
In-house counsel in Europe explain to Patrick Wingrove how they decide when to enforce their patent portfolios
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April 25, 2018
The US Supreme Court has decided in SAS Institute v Iancu that the PTAB must review all or none of the challenged claims. Observers say the PTAB petitioners could react to the ruling in a number of ways, and it “may increase the number of issues that bubble up to the Federal Circuit”
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April 25, 2018
The US Supreme Court has ruled the IPR process at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board is constitutional, although two justices dissented and the court left IPRs open to due process arguments
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April 25, 2018
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April 25, 2018
Recent standard essential patent developments include hopes for courts to “show muscle” in granting injunctions, the European Commission’s recent communication and proposals for alternative dispute resolutions
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April 25, 2018
The UPC, second medical use patents, the doctrine of equivalents, SPCs, AI and much more were discussed at the European Life Sciences Forum
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April 19, 2018
Recent intellectual people moves include Marks & Clerk Canada combining with two Toronto firms, and hires by Sheppard Mullin, Arnold & Porter, King & Spalding, Fish & Richardson, Vossius & Partner and more
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April 19, 2018
India’s Patent Office is gathering input on reforming Form 27. IP practitioners hope changes to the burdensome statement regarding the working of the patented invention will come this year
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April 19, 2018
In its important Vanda Pharmaceuticals v West-Ward Pharmaceuticals opinion, the Federal Circuit found the claims eligible at step two of the Mayo/Alice test whereas the district court found them eligible at step one
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April 18, 2018
Abolition of Australia’s innovation patent system is still possible but potential options to improve it are also not ruled out
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April 17, 2018
In WesternGeco v Ion Geophysical, the Supreme Court seems prepared to overturn the Federal Circuit’s decision to limit lost profit damages abroad in the case of domestic infringement based on the presumption against extraterritoriality
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April 12, 2018
Managing IP analyses Docket Navigator data on PTAB petitions filed in the first quarter of 2018 to reveal the most active entities and law firms
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April 12, 2018
Andrei Iancu has declared “we must change the dialogue surrounding patents”, and revealed the USPTO is looking to simplify the eligibility determination for its examiners and assessing PTAB issues such as how proceedings are instituted
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April 12, 2018
President Trump has already made his mark by appointing a USPTO director and taking a stand against China. Panellists at the Fordham IP Conference, including David Kappos and James Pooley, assessed the impact Trump could have on IP
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April 11, 2018
New China guidelines on IP transfers renew the focus on protecting of core technologies and IP sovereignty, at a time when the Trump administration claims US firms are being forced to transfer IP to Chinese partners
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April 10, 2018
Managing IP rounds up the best bits from Fordham’s 2018 IP conference, which took place on April 5 and 6 in New York, including USPTO director Andrei Iancu’s priorities and a call to action from Judge Pauline Newman
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April 09, 2018
Managing IP spoke with new IPAB chairman Manmohan Singh and Indian IP lawyers to see what progress is being made after nearly two years at a standstill
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April 09, 2018
The UKIPO’s new patent fees are now in effect, increasing application, search, examination and life-end renewal fees and introducing an excess claims and page charge scheme
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April 03, 2018
Patent Trial & Appeal Board developments in March included the most post-grant review petitions filed in a month, a predicted switch to the Philips standard, two informative decisions involving 35 USC § 325(d), and the Board instituting trial to a derivation petition for the first time
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April 02, 2018
Latest reports from Thomson Reuters’ Practical Law and the KIPO show global momentum building in blockchain patent filings. In 2017, 56% of blockchain applications came from China
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April 02, 2018
Patent filing trends for the gene editing technology indicate a near 200% increase globally between 2013 and 2015, and a continuing boom since. Patrick Wingrove investigates what is driving this and whether a litigation war is brewing
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April 02, 2018
In this special report, Managing IP looks at how blockchain technology will change intellectual property. Ellie Mertens analyses the issues and opportunities it presents for patents, trade mark and copyright