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FRAND Quarterly: Navigating the Global SEP Landscape - July 2024

WilmerHale on 8/1/2024

This is the third issue of WilmerHale’s FRAND Quarterly: Navigating the Global SEP Landscape, a bulletin that highlights developments about the licensing, litigation, and regulation of patents that are or are claimed to be...more

On Efficiency of China’s Drug-Related Patent Term Compensation System based on “Effective protection period”

Linda Liu & Partners on 6/26/2024

China’s state council issued State Council Degree No. 769 on December 21, 2023 to enact the Implementing Regulations of the Patent Law (Amended in 2023) (hereinafter referred to as “the Implementing Regulations (Amended in...more

Biosimilar Approval Updates in Europe and China

Goodwin on 4/30/2024

On April 25, 2024, the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (“CHMP”) adopted a positive opinion, recommending the granting of marketing authorization for Biogen Netherlands B.V.’s biosimilar TOFIDENCE (tocilizumab),...more

FRAND Quarterly: Navigating the Global SEP Landscape - April 2024

WilmerHale on 4/25/2024

This marks the second issue of WilmerHale’s FRAND Quarterly: Navigating the Global SEP Landscape, a bulletin that will highlight developments about the licensing, litigation, and regulation of patents that are or are claimed...more

FRAND Quarterly: Navigating the Global SEP Landscape - January 2024

WilmerHale on 1/31/2024

This marks the first issue of WilmerHale’s FRAND Quarterly: Navigating the Global SEP Landscape, a bulletin that will highlight developments about the licensing, litigation, and regulation of patents that are or are claimed...more

Mintz EnergyTech Update: New Hydrogen Patents Data Released

Mintz - Energy & Sustainability Viewpoints on 3/10/2023

Mintz EnergyTech Update: New Hydrogen Patents Data Released - The European Patent Office (EPO) and International Energy Agency (IEA) have now released “Hydrogen Patents for a Clean Energy Future” – a comprehensive report...more

2022 Design Patents Year in Review: Analysis and Trends: International Design Law: Global Law and Policy

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C. on 3/1/2023

Design protection continues to be a priority for governments around the world. Global design protection is gradually becoming more modern and harmonized. Building on earlier developments, China made progress to implement...more

2022 Design Patents Year in Review: Analysis & Trends

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C. on 2/21/2023

Last year, in our inaugural issue of “The Year in Review,” we reported that since the landmark jury verdict in the IP litigation between Apple and Samsung in 2012, which awarded more than $1B to Apple for infringement of...more

Year in Review: Top Biosimilars-Related Regulatory Developments of 2022

Goodwin on 1/3/2023

As 2022 comes to a close, we review Big Molecule Watch’s top five biosimilar regulatory developments of the year...more

Influence of Implementability of Prior Art in Determination of Novelty and Inventiveness

Linda Liu & Partners on 10/25/2022

In patent examination, the examiner will cite a prior art document in order to determine whether or not an invention or utility model is novel and inventive. The applicants challenge the implementability of the cited prior...more

2021 Design Patents Year in Review: Analysis and Trends: International Design Law Continues to Evolve

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C. on 3/10/2022

Like 2020 before it, 2021 has been a year of change for global design protection. Countries like Korea continue to update their rules to deal with the realities of modern, virtual design. China enacted a big modernization to...more

2021 Design Patents Year in Review: Analysis and Trends

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C. on 3/2/2022

This year, we will mark the 10-year anniversary of the first jury verdict in the landmark IP litigation between Apple and Samsung, which resulted in the jury awarding more than $1B to Apple. More than $500M of that award was...more

Benefits and Considerations for Patent Prosecution under Patent Prosecution Highway in the U.S., Europe, China, and Singapore

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 11/23/2021

Patent Prosecution Highway or PPH is a set of initiatives promulgated by participating patent offices around the world to accelerate patent prosecution in countries of the participating patent offices. PPH allows the...more

UK Supreme Court Decisions in Unwired Planet V Huawei and Hauwei V. Conversant

Ladas & Parry LLP on 1/18/2021

On August 26, 2020, the United Kingdom Supreme Court handed down its unanimous combined decision in the cases of Unwired Planet v. Huawei and Huawei v. Conversant. Both cases involved questions of: 1. Whether the...more

COVID-19 and Intellectual Property

International Lawyers Network on 3/30/2020

Despite the COVID-19 closures and cancellations, some governmental intellectual property offices have not extended deadlines, so parties should remain mindful that protections for individuals and businesses should not be...more

Covid-19 IP Update: Intellectual Property Office developments

Hogan Lovells on 3/16/2020

EUIPO - For those with European Union Trademarks (EUTMs), the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) in Alicante, Spain remains open although all staff are now working from home and it has extended all...more

Global Patent Prosecution - December 2019

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C. on 12/20/2019

Prosecuting Bioinformatics Patent Applications in the United States, Europe, and China - The bioinformatics market is a multi-billion dollar industry, expecting to nearly double in a few years. However, seeking patent...more

Global Patent Prosecution Newsletter - September 2019

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C. on 9/26/2019

Use of Post-Filing Data to Support Patentability - The use of post-filing data to support patentability can be a mechanism to alleviate time pressures related to first-to-file patent regimes. However, the admissibility of...more

Life Sciences International Review - Q2 2019

Morgan Lewis on 8/20/2019

EU – REGULATORY - Brexit, Notified Bodies, and Medical Devices - The House of Commons Library published a briefing paper on June 12 on the UK’s product standards and safety marking compliance in light of Brexit. In the...more

Global Patent Prosecution Newsletter - July 2019

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C. on 7/11/2019

Survey of Foreign Filing Requirements in the United States, China, and Europe - Many governments require approval of technical subject matter described in patent applications in the form of a foreign filing license prior...more

Global Artificial Intelligence Patent Survey

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP on 12/20/2018

Research and development conducted worldwide is currently driving the so-called “Fourth Industrial Revolution” (referred to herein as “4IR”). 4IR encompasses three major fields: (1) physical technologies, including autonomous...more

Global Patent Prosecution Newsletter - October 2018: Subject Matter Eligibility of Artificial Intelligence Patent Applications in...

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C. on 10/17/2018

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become one of the most important technologies of the 21st century. AI generally refers to a branch of computer science that simulates “intelligent” behavior in computers and has the potential...more

Global Patent Prosecution Newsletter - October 2018: The State of Patentable Subject Matter Internationally

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C. on 10/16/2018

As evidenced recently in the United States, it may be difficult to tell what categories of inventions are eligible for patent protection in foreign jurisdictions. To further complicate issues, standards of eligible subject...more

Global Patent Prosecution Newsletter - September 2018: Third Party Observations in Europe, China, Japan, and for the PCT - To File...

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C. on 9/17/2018

Both the European Patent Office (EPO) and the Japanese Patent Office (JPO) accept a third party observation regarding validity of a patent application. In February 2012, it was announced that third party observations could be...more

Global Patent Prosecution Newsletter - September 2018

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C. on 9/13/2018

A Survey of Third Party Observation Systems - Third party observations can be a cost-effective way of introducing prior art or arguments related to patentability of a published patent application. The September 2018 issue...more

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