Region: North America

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

Canada and the United States share common characteristics in their legal systems, with many overlapping rules in patent law. However, inventors, patent holders and practitioners should also be aware of three fundamental differences that may have practical implications on IP strategy: whether a prior sale of a product bars patentability, the question of how similar a product could be without infringing on a patented invention and infringement in the context of the skinny-label pathway.

24 June 2024

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

A slew of recent litigation in the biologics and biosimilars space has drastically changed the landscape of this space and made it more challenging for biopharma companies and IP professionals.

24 June 2024

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

Life science legislation is nuanced and must be carefully navigated to when creating an effective patent portfolio. Having a keen understanding of regulatory provisions is key to navigating the many minefields inherent in the commercialisation of a successful product. 

24 June 2024

Saturday Opinion: Patent holders crave judges with experience and case progress predictability – and there’s a way to achieve it

22 June 2024

Most of the time courts resolve patent eligibility issues pre-trial but here the jury decided the second prong on “inventive concept” – in the patent holder’s favour

21 June 2024

The potential new pool would license the smart home product market, which utilises a handful of different standards and counts up to 100 patent holder and thousands of implementers

21 June 2024

The Federal Trade Commission has welcomed a rule from the patent office that would require companies to disclose settlement agreements earlier in the patent challenge process

20 June 2024

The case accuses a former equipment supplier of stealing lucrative IP and exposes the weakness in Musk’s tough anti-patent rhetoric 

20 June 2024

The global portfolio of 40 patent families covers cloud computing and data centre technology and potential licensees include Microsoft, Amazon, Dell, IBM, Oracle and Salesforce

19 June 2024

Patent lawsuit financiers and patentees’ counsel are crossing their fingers that Representative Darrell Issa’s upcoming bill on litigation finance disclosure will not go too far

19 June 2024