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Australia could be going down the road of no longer allowing gene patents, New Zealand-based patent lawyer David Nowak said at the BIO International Convention yesterday. 18 June 2015
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Philip Johnson, Johnson & Johnson’s senior vice president of intellectual property and policy, told the BIO International Convention yesterday that uncertainty around patent eligibility of inventions is a “silent killer of innovation”. 18 June 2015
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The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership has the potential to reinforce intellectual property as a driver of innovation, said Washington, DC-based former lawyer Jennifer Hillman at the BIO International Convention on Tuesday. 17 June 2015
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Jacqueline Wright Bonilla, an administrative judge at the US Patent and Trademark Office, has told the BIO International Convention that despite inter partes review proceedings appearing to favour petitioners, the USPTO is not pro-petitioner, patent owner or even IPR. 17 June 2015
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MultiLing is a Utah-based patent translation company with clients including IBM, Thermo Fisher Scientific and P&G. LSIPR caught up with the company’s senior vice president of worldwide sales Michael Degn at the BIO International Convention in Philadelphia. 17 June 2015
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A US appeals court has affirmed that a patent covering the method of detecting foetal abnormalities in pregnant mothers is ineligible for protection because it applies to a “natural phenomenon”. 17 June 2015
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This year’s BIO International Convention in Philadelphia went off with a bang on Monday night as hundreds travelled to the kickoff concert to see three of the area’s most successful music acts of the last 50 years. 17 June 2015
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US law firm Blank Rome has hired Paul Zagar as a partner to its intellectual property group. 17 June 2015
Asia
Two writ petitions to the Delhi High Court have resulted in the formation of a committee tasked with devising approaches to promote expedited examination at the Indian Patent Office, as Pravin Anand of Anand and Anand reports. 16 June 2015
Asia-Pacific
Tax avoidance involving the import of undeclared trademarked items has led the Mexican customs authorities to change the regulations governing the information that must be submitted, as Daniel Sánchez and Víctor Ramírez of Olivares describe. 16 June 2015