Protection of Medical Method Inventions as Trade Secret

TRIPs-Plus Treaties and Strengthening Protection of Pharmaceutical Inventions

After concluding TRIPs agreement, the sphere of negotiation in respect of protecting new kinds of intellectual property rights especially pharmaceutical inventions transferred to bilateral and regional arrangements. TRIPs agreement has some flexibility to attract all countries. Industrialized countries believed that multilateral agreements protections based especially in regard of pharmaceutica...

a comparison between patent and trade secret regimes in protection of industrial property rights

in the past and before granting the inventors and owners of intellectual property rights special exclusive rights and privileges under the patent laws, the protection of intellectual property rights was possible only through a legal regime which could help to keep the know how and innovation secret. this regime, in which contractual terms are often used to keep the innovation secret, is called ...

Preserving Your Revenue-management System as a Trade Secret

Make sure that your revenue-management system is safe from trade-secret piracy.

Method of Treatment Inventions under the Epc: What Kind of Protection Can You Get?

Article 52(4) EPC, first sentence, represents an exclusion clause and, hence, should be narrowly construed and should not apply to treatments of the human or animal body which are not therapeutic in character or do not constitute a surgical or diagnostic method. The following comments shall give guidance to the reader as to what should be considered if patent protection is desired for an invent...

A Case for Expansive Patent Protection of Biotechnology Inventions