Partial Designs Previously, Chinese design law excluded the protection of partial designs, i.e. portions of a product that cannot be partitioned or sold and used independently. Instead, designs could only be registered for the appearance of a product in its entirety....
Key Revisions to the Chinese Guidelines for Patent Examination Supplementary Data Historically, in China, the rules on submitting supplementary data in favour of sufficiency and/or inventive step have been very strict throughout patent prosecution. This was bad news...
Background The patent at issue in the present case was US7,772,209, claim 1 of which is shown below. Claim 1 A method for administering pemetrexed disodium to a patient in need thereof comprising administering an effective amount of folic acid and an effective amount...
As a brief recap, claim 1 of Eli Lilly’s patent requires vitamin B12 + Pemetrexed disodium and claim 2 requires vitamin B12 + Pemetrexed disodium + folic binding protein. The potential infringer, Fresenius, used a composition including Pemetrexed tromethamine in...
Snyders’ Heart Valve Patent Snyders’ patent was to an artificial heart valve that crucially can be inserted into place without removing the native damaged valve. This is explicitly stated in the description with further details of how the artificial valve...
Paediatrics Regulation In Europe, Orphan Medicinal Products are medicinal products that are intended for the treatment of conditions that affect no more than 5 in 10,000 people in the EU. In order to incentivise the development of treatments for these rare conditions,...
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