Patentability conditions for the invention protection

The Antitrusting of Patentability

Deciding a patent’s validity is costly, and so is deciding it incorrectly. Judges and juries must expend significant resources in order to reach a patent validity determination that is properly informed by the relevant facts. At the same time, patent validity determinations reached quickly and cheaply may conserve resources today while creating future costs. Wrongly preserving an invalid patent...

Dispute over the Meaning of “Invention” in Article 52(2) EPC – The patentability of computer- implemented inventions in Europe

the search for the self in becketts theatre: waiting for godot and endgame

this thesis is based upon the works of samuel beckett. one of the greatest writers of contemporary literature. here, i have tried to focus on one of the main themes in becketts works: the search for the real "me" or the real self, which is not only a problem to be solved for beckett man but also for each of us. i have tried to show becketts techniques in approaching this unattainable goal, base...

Biotechnology patentability – the latest from the EPO

inventive targets are routinely granted by the EPO. The EPO considers it straightforward to obtain antibodies to a new protein and so does not require such antibodies to be exemplified. This approach was developed in the era when many new genes and proteins were being cloned and patented, and it was therefore common for targets to be novel and inventive (non-obvious). However, most new antibodi...

The Patentability of Enantiomers: Implications for the Pharmaceutical Industry

¶1 When it comes to sales figures, Big Pharma certainly lives up to its reputation. A recent study estimates worldwide pharmaceutical sales exceed $600 billion.1 The United States is by far the single largest market for pharmaceutical products,2 where companies invest hundreds of millions of dollars in drug discovery3 and boast annual sales of $252 billion.4 ¶2 What may come as more of a surpri...