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Contradictory claims, clarity and insufficiency: High stakes for patent applications
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As the European Patent Office moves towards stricter alignment between patent claims and descriptions, we examine why a recent …
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Marking your line in the sand: Why sufficiency matters at the priority date
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A recent decision by the European Patent Office has highlighted that, for therapeutic inventions, simply outlining a treatment …
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Appeals are for players: The limits of intervention in EPO proceedings
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A recent decision by the European Patent Office’s Enlarged Board of Appeal confirmed that interveners in Appeal proceedings fol…
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Claims with clout: Getting sufficiency and plausibility right for your patent application
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Here, we provide an overview of the concepts of sufficiency and plausibility and discuss how two key judgments could affect fut…
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Drug manufacture: trade secret or patent?
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In this article we explore whether patent protection or trade secrets are preferable in the pharmaceutical industry where a man…
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Board of Appeal clarifies role of ‘mode of administration’ in securing medical use patents
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The European Patent Office’s Board of Appeal recently considered whether a new mode of administration for a patented drug can b…
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