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Pharmaceutical Patenting
As the regulatory requirements to obtain marketing authorization of medicines become more stringent, the research required becomes ever longer and more costly; it can typically take 12-14 years and cost up to $1bn to bring a new drug from its initial discovery to the market. Patent protection is therefore critical… -
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Software rights - to share or to keep control?
In the United Kingdom, and in most countries, both the source code and object code of a computer program are automatically protected by copyright. -
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The Unitary Patent A Connected Europe?
Update 25 February 2013: On 19th February the Unified Patent Court Agreement was formally signed by the 24 participating Member States. This is a formal stage in the process towards the creation and implementation of the Unified (or Unitary) Patent system, although there are still a number of important details… -
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We are proud to note that the next edition of our trade mark newsletter will be our 100th D Young & Co IP newsletter. -
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Patenting for the Cloud - Challenges and Solutions
In this article we look at the challenges in securing IP that arises from the distributed nature of cloud computing technology. Specifically, we look at the situation where there is clear potential to fragment a cloud-based invention into stages which can be shared between servers that are in different countries… -
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Has the EPO Reopened the Divisional Window?
The European Patent Office (EPO) recently issued a practice notice which could cause the window for filing divisional applications to be extended or reopened for some pending European patent (EP) applications. You may now be able to obtain European patent rights through a divisional application that were not possible before… -
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Has the EPO Reopened the Divisional Window?
The European Patent Office (EPO) recently issued a practice notice which could cause the window for filing divisional applications to be extended or reopened for some pending European patent (EP) applications. You may now be able to obtain European patent rights through a divisional application that were not possible before… -
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Update on the Unified Patent Court
Despite extensive criticism from a number of EU companies, IP lawyers, judges and even the respected Max Planck Institute, the European Parliament has approved the Unitary Patent (UP) Regulation and associated legislation. Whilst this still needs to be formally ratified by 13 Member States of the EU (including UK, France… -
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The Need to Protect IP in the Cloud
With the Unitary Patent looking increasingly likely, the Patents Court has stolen a march by allowing a declaration of non-infringement of a European Patent to proceed in respect not just of the UK designation but also designations in France, Germany, Italy and Spain. -
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Research Exemption for Patent Infringement
The UK IPO has just announced a consultation on whether to put in place legislation to extend (or even increase) the clinical trials exemption (the 'Bolar' exemption) that already exists for generic medicines to innovative medicines as well.
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