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

The Indian Patents Act, 1970, under Section 3(i), explicitly excludes the patenting of methods of diagnosis...

Romania deposited the instrument of ratification of the Agreement on the Unified Patent Court on 31...

Polish practice as to limitation of patents as a part of a validity defence has undergone...

The recent updates to the Chinese Patent Law, including the release of the Implementation Regulations of...

... applicants have struggled to patent inventions in the US, most notably in medical diagnostics and...

The impact of the court’s decision in Cellect was particularly acute because the reference patents on...

As research and development efforts move forward in relation to Chimeric antigen receptor CAR-T cells, it is...

Genome editing using Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR)/CRISPR-associated 9 (Cas-9) technology holds great potential...

The new Indian Biodiversity Law - a significant step towards encouraging science and innovation in the...