IP laws and practice (includes legislation, practice changes, case-law from around the world)

The USPTO has made great strides to improve diversity both within the USPTO and in the innovation ecosphere at large...

The Indian Patents Act, 1970, under Section 3(i), explicitly excludes the patenting of methods of diagnosis and treatment for human beings and animals. While...

Romania deposited the instrument of ratification of the Agreement on the Unified Patent Court on 31 May 2024, becoming the first country where the...

Polish practice as to limitation of patents as a part of a validity defence has undergone huge changes in the last 30 years. From...

The recent updates to the Chinese Patent Law, including the release of the Implementation Regulations of the Patent Law (IRPL) and the Guidelines for...

... applicants have struggled to patent inventions in the US, most notably in medical diagnostics and computer-implemented inventions, while such inventions can be patented...

The impact of the court’s decision in Cellect was particularly acute because the reference patents on which the ODP findings were based had all...

As research and development efforts move forward in relation to Chimeric antigen receptor CAR-T cells, it is interesting to understand the main patentability issues of...

Genome editing using Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR)/CRISPR-associated 9 (Cas-9) technology holds great potential to accelerate life science research, improve biotechnology, and...