You may have heard that it is inappropriate to read into a patent claim from the specification. That isn’t entirely accurate, although you will hear that popular misconception often repeated even by ...

The European Parliament (EP) has enlisted the help of intellectual property lawyers to amend the directive on the patentability of computer-implemented inventions so that companies are prevented from ...

With the European Commission heading towards a second reading of its patent legislation, there's still more heat than light in discussions on the subject. The UK Patent Office (UKPO) has of late been ...

It is common in patent cases for the patentee to ascribe “plain and ordinary” meaning to terms in a patent claim, while the defendant often seeks a narrower construction. But what if the parties agree ...

The meaning of “protected by a basic patent” has been clarified in Teva v Gilead, in a return to familiar ground The Court of Justice of the EU today clarified when a product is protected by a basic ...

Wasica Fin. GmbH v. Cont’l Auto. Sys., (Fed. Cir. Apr. 4, 2017) (Before Prost, C.J., Schall, and Chen, J.) (Opinion for the court, Schall, J.) In an April 4, 2017 ...

Two pharmaceutical giants head to the Supreme Court on Monday in a dispute over a patent covering cholesterol-lowering antibodies. In Amgen Inc. v. Sanofi, the justices will consider whether Amgen’s ...

In a dramatic change to Australian patent law, Australia's Full Federal Court has just held that patents for pharmaceutical formulations are not eligible for patent term extensions ( PTE ): Otsuka ...

Tomotoshi Shimano of Shiga International Patent Office examines the implications of recent High Court decisions relating to the interpretation of ‘working of a patented invention’ IP High Court (IPHC) ...

A mere ten days before the scheduled patent infringement trial between Samsung and Apple, US District Judge Lucky Koh rejected two more proposals from Samsung, maker of Android enabled smartphones.