Can you patent a genetically modified organism? While Article 53(b) EPC is clear that essentially biological methods of producing an organism, i.e. crossing and selection, are not patentable there has been ongoing debate as to whether the organisms resulting from...
The time-consuming and costly regulatory review of new pharmaceuticals led to the Supplementary Protection Certificate (SPC) system being introduced in 1992. The SPC system is designed to compensate for the shortening in effective patent term that arises from the...
Background Ice-World, who is the proprietor of European patent No. 1462755, makes mobile ice rinks and leases them to third parties. Icescape also design and make mobile ice rinks, although in the past have operated a mobile ice rink leased to them from Ice-World....
Warner-Lambert originally developed its compound pregabalin, which it sold under the mark Lyrica, as an anti-convulsant, anti-anxiety, anti-psychotic medication, in particular for the treatment of epilepsy and generalised anxiety disorder. It obtained patent...
Following the UK Supreme Court decision in Actavis v Eli Lilly in which Lord Neuberger concluded that the term “sodium” also covered “potassium” as an equivalent, a judgement was handed down in Milan also concerning the scope of protection of...
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