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Europe
Philip Webber, partner at Dehns Patent & Trademark Attorneys, looks at the clarity of the language used in the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard’s granted European patents for the CRISPR technology and questions whether it satisfies the European Patent Office’s requirements. 29 October 2015
Americas
Oppositions to a patent covering the CRISPR/Cas9 system illustrate the need for applicants to carefully consider making statements on commercially important technology even after a patent application has been filed. Catherine Coombes of law firm HGF reports. 29 October 2015
Biotechnology
There is “clearly a lot of unrest” in the patent law on molecular diagnostics, according to the head of licensing at Roche Diagnostics. 28 October 2015
Americas
The Coalition for Affordable Drugs, an organisation closely tied to hedge fund manager Kyle Bass, has persuaded the Patent Trial and Appeal Board to institute an inter partes review concerning the validity of two patents owned by biopharmaceutical company Celgene. 28 October 2015
Americas
Law firm Duane Morris has hired Paul Li as a partner in the firm’s intellectual property practice in San Francisco. 27 October 2015
Americas
Hedge fund manager Kyle Bass and his Coalition for Affordable Drugs have tasted success at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board for the second time in a month after it agreed to institute an inter partes review of a patent covering a drug owned by NPS Pharmaceuticals. 27 October 2015
Big Pharma
Being both an innovator and a generic drug company gives Teva a good view of the patent litigation landscape, as Galit Gonen, general counsel, Teva Europe, tells LSIPR. 27 October 2015
Americas
In July the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit sought to clarify the rules on the ‘patent dance’, but with confusion reigning there are likely to be more twists and turns to come, as LSIPR finds out. 27 October 2015
Americas
Patent examiners not only have to tackle legal questions, but in cases of inventions directed to genetically modified animals they must consider moral issues too. This forms part of a wider controversial debate surrounding animals and patents. LSIPR reports. 27 October 2015
Americas
Lawyers have claimed that the latest ruling in Ariosa Diagnostics v Sequenom creates an “existential threat” to biomedical patents in the US, but is this really the case? LSIPR investigates. 27 October 2015