Background As previously reported, in G 2/12 (Broccoli and Tomatoes II), the Enlarged Board of Appeal found that Article 53(b) EPC did not exclude plants produced by essentially biological processes from patentability. Nevertheless, following guidance from the...
The Broad Institute (Broad) manages a patent portfolio on behalf of several collaborating institutions, including Broad, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and President and Fellows of Harvard College (Harvard) which contains several European patents for...
The Broad Institute (Broad) manages a patent portfolio on behalf of several collaborating institutions, including Broad, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and President and Fellows of Harvard College (Harvard) which contains several European patents for...
Background Genentech is the proprietor of European patent (UK) No. 1 641 822 entitled “Il-17A/F heterologous peptides and therapeutic uses thereof”. Genentech does not at present have a product covered by the patent but Lilly market an antibody under the...
The two patent applications that were the subject of last week’s sequential hearings are both divisional applications of EP2771468 which was revoked in January 2018 and is currently under Appeal at the EPO. The two sequential hearings were consolidated with...
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