Organisation: European Patent Office

How to take advantage of both EPO prosecution and German enforcement

Featured in The Guide to Life Sciences: Key issues for senior life sciences executives 2024

Europe is one of the most important markets for the life sciences and pharma industry, and Germany is one of its key jurisdictions. Patenting life science inventions in Germany can be challenging as some biological subject matter is excluded from patent protection, so careful patent drafting is crucial in order to obtain allowable claims.

24 June 2024

Three factors to consider when building a foreign filing strategy

IP-rich companies expanding globally must build a filing network, ensure quality over quantity, and be prepared to enforce their rights

30 April 2024

Bayer handed lifeline by UK Court of Appeal in battle with Xarelto generics

European courts have been divided in a hard-fought struggle over the best-selling drug

30 April 2024

GSK becomes latest mRNA patentee to enter covid IP wars, increasing pressure on Pfizer/BioNTech

Meanwhile BioNTech and Moderna face off in the UK, and another mRNA spat settles

29 April 2024

Five issues on the minds of China’s IP players

IAM summarises the hot topics discussed during the first-ever two-day edition of IPBC China

23 April 2024

A guide to ongoing biosimilar battles as Johnson & Johnson reaches Stelara settlement

IAM hones in on spats over several biologic drugs in Europe and beyond

08 April 2024

How generative AI patent applications can clear hurdles in the EPO

Withers & Rogers studied 3,000 European patents, revealing that inventive step and clarity objections are main stumbling blocks

27 March 2024

BioNTech facing fresh mRNA spat in vaccine patent royalties dispute

The covid-19 IP war’s most prolific defendant finds itself on the brink of litigation in another fight

27 March 2024

Broad Institute gets huge CRISPR boost from Board of Appeal decision

Many applicants could benefit from the EPO’s latest appellate decision on priority entitlement

26 March 2024

Robot wars, IP leadership and trade secrets: IPBC Europe 2024

Panellists tackled a broad range of subjects on day two of our flagship conference in Munich

20 March 2024