Patent

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...

In recent years, the Patent Board of the Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office (National Institute of Industrial Property “INPI”) has implemented a series of...

What are stem cells and why are they so important? The body is an amazing thing, made up of billions of cells of many different,...

Patent Term Extension (PTE) in Korea provides an opportunity to extend the term of a patent based on regulatory approval or Marketing Authorisation (MA)...

Members of FICPI-India considered the content and the implications of impromptu notices issued by the Indian Patent Office in December 2022......