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Dutch District Court rules on the plausibility standard on the merits (apixaban)

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In this note, we will discuss the latest decisions on the merits from the Dutch patent court on the matter of plausibility and inventive step. These were handed down in two cases (BMS v Sandoz and BMS v Teva) on 30 October...more

WilmerHale

Patent Protection for AI Creations - Landmark decision by the German Federal Court of Justice

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These days, patent courts across the world have to address the question of how to deal with AI-generated inventions. The German Federal Court of Justice ("FCJ") has recently issued a landmark decision (decision of June...more

Mintz - Intellectual Property Viewpoints

AI-Based Patent Applications: Recent History and the Future

The emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) as a field of technology has correlated with an increase in patent application filings on AI-related inventions over the past two decades. With more filings than ever, businesses...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

One Europe, One Patent? New European Unitary Patent Comes into Effect June 1

In June 2023, the European Union (EU) will introduce the European Unitary Patent. At the outset, the European Unitary Patent will be enforceable in the 17 States that have ratified the agreement between the EU and the EPO:...more

Dechert LLP

Inventive AI: European Patent Office finds that only humans can be inventors

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Patent offices and courts around the world have recently been grappling with the question of whether an AI system can be the inventor of a patent. This has been prompted by Dr. Stephen Thaler’s applications to designate his...more

Hogan Lovells

AI has no personality: EPO rules that an AI machine cannot be an inventor in patent applications

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In the patent grant proceedings for two European Patent Applications, the EPO has ruled that an AI machine cannot be named as an inventor in a Patent Application. Doing so does not comply with the requirement to designate the...more

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Freedom to Utilize Genetic Resources? The Nagoya Protocol Two Years Later

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Two years ago today, the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits from their Utilization to the Convention on Biological Diversity (“Protocol”) entered into international...more

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