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Clarifying the patentability of medical use inventions in China

By AWA | Posted on May 20, 2020

At the end of 2019, the new Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) emerged. It has gone on to infect millions of people worldwide and so far, claimed the lives of over a quarter of a million people. COVID-19 has disrupted the world economy like never before. At the same time, it has brought unprecedented global attention to disease...

Tags: china, CNIPA, EPO, Gilead, inventions, JPO, medical use, patents, Remdesivir

PPH agreement between EP and PL enters into force as Poland joins the GPPH

By Troels Peter Rørdam | Posted on February 24, 2017

The ever expanding PPH network keeps getting new additions and as always the AWAPATENT Blog sums up the new expansions and arising possibilities. To recall, for a given PPH agreement the PPH allows the requesting of accelerated examination at offices participating in the agreement. It is based on the search results and a set of...

Tags: EPO, JPO, PPH, rospatent

Patent Prosecution Highway – Sweden and NPI entering the PPH-network

By Troels Peter Rørdam | Posted on September 27, 2011

As I mentioned in my blog entry of 19 september, the number of PPH-agreements has increased, introducing new possibilities for accelerated prosecution. Sweden’s Patent- och Registreringsverket and Nordic Patent Institute entering the PPH-network Three new patent offices have entered the PPH-network. The three new offices are PRV (Sweden, PCT-PPH with JPO and USPTO), The Nordic...

Tags: awapatent, European Patent Attorney, JPO, Nordic Patent Institute, PPH, PRV, USPTO

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Laura Stravinskaite

Laura Stravinskaite

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Troels Peter Rørdam

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