Background The Polish Regional Court had awarded damages for a much lower sum than that which was claimed by the claimant, noting that an award of punitive damages in respect of an infringed IP right would likely contravene Article 13 of the Enforcement Directive,...
Criteria – Three-Step Test In order for the disputed domain names to be either cancelled or transferred, a panellist/panel must find that the following three conditions are met: The domain name registered by the domain name registrant is identical or confusingly...
Introduction The Cancer Immunotherapy Pilot Program, also known as “Patents 4 Patients”, makes certain US patent applications relating to cancer immunotherapy eligible for special status and examination with the goal of completing prosecution within 12...
Executive Summary / Practice Points Stem cell technologies promise to be the next transformative medical technology offering therapies for conditions and diseases that are currently beyond medical science by creating replacement or supplementary tissues for a patient....
The origin of the PTE system flows from a desire to compensate those who have invested time and resources in making or finding new medical products for the additional burden of gaining regulatory approval for that product. Thus, originally, the PTE provisions were...
Biopiracy is the evil sibling of bioprospecting. Bioprospecting is the search for existing genetic resources and biological knowledge that can be applied more widely and in novel applications. This is an area of particular interest to the pharmaceutical industry...
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