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Standards For Inventiveness And Disclosure For Antibody Claims Across Jurisdictions

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Standards for patenting antibodies have substantially tightened over the last few years restricting scope of antibody claims—or, in some cases, undermining the validity of granted patents. Most recently, Singapore updated...more

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CNIPA’s Requirements on Supplementary Experimental Data and Inventiveness Evaluation of CN Patent Application in Biology and...

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On December 14, 2020, the China National Intellectual Property Administration released “Announcement about Amendments to the Guidelines for Patent Examination (Announcement No. 391)” on its website, showing that the amended...more

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Year in Review: Top U.S. Biosimilars-Related Regulatory Developments of 2021

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As 2021 comes to a close, Big Molecule Watch reviews the top five biosimilar regulatory developments of the year... President Biden Signs Orange Book Transparency Act - In January, we reported that President Biden...more

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The Toolgen Interference: CVC Preliminary Motions List

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Senior Party Toolgen and Junior Parties The Broad Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Harvard University (collectively, "Broad") in Interference No. 106,126 and University of California/Berkeley, the...more

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The CRISPR Chronicles: Enter Toolgen

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The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Patent Trial and Appeal Board has declared interferences individually between Toolgen as Senior Party and as Junior Party the parties in the pending interference, Broad Institute, Harvard...more

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China: Are you up-to-date on SPC draft guidelines on patent examination and administrative cases concerning patent rights?

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China’s Supreme People’s Court (SPC) recently circulated its Draft “Provisions on Several Issues concerning the Adjudication of Administrative Cases on Granting and Affirming Patent Rights (I)”...more

Law Matters

Is The Peer Review Crisis A Patent Application Crisis?

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Reproducibility is the cornerstone of peer-reviewed science. A surprisingly high percentage of major studies across various scientific disciplines cannot be reproduced....more

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U.S. Patent Office Issues New Examples of Patent Eligibility Analysis of Life Sciences Claims

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On May 4, 2016, the United States Patent Office published a subject matter eligibility update for determining patent eligibility under 35 U.S.C. § 101. The Update supplements the previous guidelines and includes additional...more

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USPTO Issues Subject Matter Eligibility Update

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On May 5, 2016, the USPTO published a Memorandum to the Patent Examining Corps titled “Formulating a Subject Matter Eligibility Rejection and Evaluating the Applicant’s Response to a Subject Matter Eligibility Rejection.” The...more

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