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UK Professor Charts Path to Reconciling IP Rights, Farmers’ Rights
The Graduate Institute Centre for International Environmental Studies in Geneva invited Graham Dutfield, professor of international governance at the University of Leeds, for a public lecture on 20 March on intellectual property, food security, and rural development. He [...]
Gilead Sciences’ hepatitis drug patent faces legal challenge
International group representing doctors and patient have launched a fresh challenge to the patent on Gilead Sciences’ hepatitis C drug Sofosbuvir at the European patent office in order to increase access to treatment. Sofosbuvir [...]
Supreme Court should bring Sanity to Patent Law
Supreme Court will hear argument in TC Heartland v. Kraft Foods. This critically important case involves the meaning of the patent venue statute and where plaintiffs who claim infringement may bring suit. Fighting over where cases [...]
Europe says University of California deserves broad patent for CRISPR
The European Patent Office (EPO) announced on 23 March its “intention to grant a patent” to the University of California (UC) for its broad-based claims about the genome-editing tool popularly known as CRISPR. UC, [...]
Sir Edward Coke and International Patent Exhaustion
One of the questions in Impression Prods., Inc. v. Lexmark Int’l, Inc., on which the Supreme Court recently heard oral argument (March 21), is whether the authorized and foreign first sale of a patented item [...]
Publishing of Prior Art!
Defensive publishing is a cost-effective method to protect technology without applying for patents. Publishing documents that establish your innovation as “prior art” in the public domain can decrease unnecessary patent expenses for innovations that [...]