"Obvious to try": a proper patentability standard in the pharmaceutical arts?

Comparative Study of Patentability of Drug Polymorphism in Iran and the USA

Drug polymorphs are defined as a different arrangement of the same active compounds in crystalline form, which can potentially affect its therapeutic activity by changing the dissolution profile of drug upon administration. Discovery of new polymorphs therefore can provide added value for a previously marketed drug, due to the new advantages provided by the novel polymorph. Therefore, there is ...

Chemically Complicated: Effective Arguments to Combat “Obvious to Try” Rejections with Respect to Takeda and the Chemical Arts

Economic Valuation of Cultural Goods (Case Study: Isfahan City of Arts)

In today’s world, no one can deny the expansion of economic influence in the various aspects of social life and economization of immaterial issues of social life is becoming more obvious every day. The valuation of cultural goods, as one of the most important economic aspects related to arts and culture, is chosen to be considered in this study. The necessity of considering the economic valuat...

An Iconological Study of the Bakhtiari Pictorial Carpet by Panofsky’s Methodology

Studying visual artworks, especially when there is not much to know about their hidden meanings, is a problem which should be solved in a systematic way by adopting an authentic methodology. Passing through an image to reach the meaning is a process which always and unconsciously happens in artworks' addressees with nearly different methods. Determining such a methodical approach in the critica...

چالش‌های اخلاقی حمایت از روش‌های علم پزشکی در حقوق اختراعات

Human inventions and innovations are generally subject to legal protection but some of these innovations are not subject to legal protection. Medical methods are one of the controversial exceptions of patentability of inventions and opponents and proponents of patent ability of medical methods support propound several reasons to prove their theory. While major arguments of proponents are justif...