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Protecting Biological Drug Innovations
By AWA | Posted on November 11, 2020
Learn how to protect biological drug innovations during this webinar from Stockholm Science City (In Swedish). Ulrika Munter and Nora Spjuth share their experiences working with intellectual property in this field and Linus Plym Forshell from the Swedish Intellectual Property Office (PRV) provides an overview of IP strategies in the pharmaceutical sector. This webinar is in Swedish.
Tags: biological, drugs, innovations, patents, PRV
EPO rules plants and animals exclusively obtained by essentially biological processes not patentable
By AWA | Posted on May 18, 2020
It has been clear that essentially biological processes for the production of plants or animals are explicitly excluded from patentability under Article 53(b) EPC. However, patentability of products of the essentially biological processes, such as plants and animals, has been questioned and repeatedly visited by the Enlarged Board of Appeal in recent years. On 14...
Tags: animals, biological, Board of Appeal, EPO, interpretation, patents, plants
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