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Americas
Gabriel Di Blasi outlines the existing impediments to developing new biotechnology products in Brazil,
and considers recent efforts to improve the situation. 31 July 2013
Americas
Danish firm Bavarian Nordic has a portfolio of patents for vaccines and cancer treatments, but likes to keep some of its cards close to its chest, as LSIPR finds out. 31 July 2013
Europe
At some offices, the passage of a patent through the system is not quite as fast as applicants might hope—and at others it may be quicker than they would like. Matt Smith and Jonathan Wills outline the situation. 31 July 2013
Europe
The law of patents and SPCs has yet to be tested in the context of medicines which can be used to treat specific groups of patients, as Paul England explains. 28 June 2013
Biotechnology
The European Patent Office grants approximately 6,000 biotechnology patents per year. LSIPR spoke to Victor Kaas, director of biotechnology at the office, about how it faces the unique challenges of the industry. 28 June 2013
Americas
As support for the study of rare diseases picks up, how does a good IP strategy bring orphan drugs to market? LSIPR spoke to aTyr Pharma’s chief executive John Mendlein to find out. 28 June 2013
Americas
The US Supreme Court in a landmark decision held that a DNA molecule is potentially eligible for patenting in the US if its sequence does not occur in nature, but is not patent-eligible if its sequence is identical to a
naturally occurring DNA sequence. 28 June 2013
Biotechnology
BerGenBio’s ‘ask the cell’ technology could potentially change cancer treatment as we know it. With an expanding patent portfolio and library of trade secrets behind it, what challenges does the startup biotech
company face in bringing its first drugs to market? 31 May 2013
Europe
The definition of what constitutes a co-pending patent filing in Europe has recently been rewritten to include
patent applications from within the same patent family. Jane Wainwright of Potter Clarkson investigates
the decisions leading to this change. 31 May 2013
Americas
Patent term restoration has been adopted by several jurisdictions, with varying success. Mexico faces several issues with sanitary authorisations and patent examination, so patent term restoration would be a viable remedy for patent holders. The TPP might enable this. 30 April 2013