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What patent protection does Gilead’s COVID-19 treatment Remdesivir have?

By Anders Heebøll-Nielsen, Michael Bech Sommer | Posted on April 30, 2020

On 29 April 2020 Gilead announced that its drug Remdesivir has a positive effect in the treatment of COVID-19 from a phase three trial of the drug. The investigation was so successful that for ethical reasons it was “unblinded” – the effect observed was so significant that retaining the group on placebo would prevent those...

Tags: applications, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Gilead, IPR protection, patents, PCT, Remdesivir

Can you not patent a beer?

By Anders Heebøll-Nielsen | Posted on March 31, 2017

On 15 March 2017, the coalition No Patents on Seeds issued a press release to stop patents on beer, which was cited by inter alia the journal Ingeniøren of the Danish Society of Engineers. But can you really not patent a beer? I will summarise the situation. In 1998, the EU Directive 98/44/EC on the...

Tags: beer, Patent

An unknown exception error at the EPO

By Anders Heebøll-Nielsen | Posted on August 4, 2014

We recently blogged about how the EPO has introduced the concept of small entities for obtaining fee reductions in procedures before the EPO. The new procedure can create a peculiar error that at least I did not foresee. The EPO Form 1001E for request for grant of a European patent contains a field, Item 5,...

Tags: EPO, examination, Rule 6(4) EPC, small entity

A brighter future for the EU patent

By Anders Heebøll-Nielsen | Posted on December 13, 2010

A brighter future for the EU patent 11 EU member states have decided to move towards an EU patent under an enhanced cooperation aiming to reduce costs of patenting in the EU. Progress towards implementation of the long desired EU patent has until now been hindered by disagreements between the EU member states regarding translation...

Tags: EPO, EU, Patent

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