IP Watchdog

JUNE 19, 2023

The impact of the long-awaited launch of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) is hard to overstate. While litigators and patent portfolio managers are immediately feeling the impact in Europe, surprisingly, they should also expect an impact on information disclosure statement (IDS) strategy for U.S. patent applications.

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IP Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

In Part I of this series, we discussed how patent portfolio managers should be careful when generating company-owned prior art or reviewing competitor prior art, and how a patent litigation or licensing campaign can be significantly hamstrung based on how the United States and Europe consider intervening prior art.

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The IPKat

MAY 31, 2023

The US Supreme Court recently ruled in the high profile Amgen versus Sanofi patent dispute. 2021 ), the Supreme Court found Amgen's function and epitope defined PCSK9 antibody patents to lack enablement ( Amgen Inc v Sanofi, No. The patents in dispute in Amgen v Sanofi defined a class of antibodies by their function and epitope.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 24, 2023

This Kat is delighted to review “ A Practitioner’s Guide to European Patent Law: For National Practice and the Unified Patent Court ” (Hart Publishing, 2022, 664 pp.). non-infringement or that a patent is standard essential), and on FRAND (fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory) licensing. the Bolar exemption and exhaustion).

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Following on from our IPKat EBA 2021 Year in Review , here is some more festive holiday reading on some of the important decisions to come out of the EPO Boards of Appeal this year. As the year draws to the close, the EPO has announced the Legal Boards of Appeal decision on whether an AI can be named as an inventor (J 8/20 and J 9/20).

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

JUNE 14, 2022

Moritz Ammelburg and Peter Fasse examine the patentability requirements and prosecution schemes in the US and Europe and how applicants can prepare applications that will best serve their needs in both jurisdictions. can significantly complicate the coordination of a global patent strategy. PDF copy available.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Merpel gives the "German injunction gap" factor some much needed side-eye After the end of what English and Welsh litigators call the Trinity term (aka end of the term before the Court breaks for the summer holidays), Mr Justice Mellor was working overtime to deliver two decisions. But no such luck for Abbott, " regret[tably] ".

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