Biotech news
Americas
On day three of the BIO International Convention, LSIPR spoke to Kevin Noonan and Donald Zuhn, partners at law firm McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff and authors of the Patent Docs blog, about the possible impact of the Federal Circuit’s Ariosa v Sequenom decision on the life sciences industry. 18 June 2015
Americas
Scott Kamholz, a former judge at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, recently returned to law firm Foley Hoag as partner. LSIPR spoke to him at this year’s BIO International Convention, where he explained why the inter-partes review is not a “death squad” for patents. 18 June 2015
Americas
Philip Johnson, Johnson & Johnson’s senior vice president of intellectual property and policy, told the BIO International Convention yesterday that uncertainty around patent eligibility of inventions is a “silent killer of innovation”. 18 June 2015
Americas
The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership has the potential to reinforce intellectual property as a driver of innovation, said Washington, DC-based former lawyer Jennifer Hillman at the BIO International Convention on Tuesday. 17 June 2015
Americas
Jacqueline Wright Bonilla, an administrative judge at the US Patent and Trademark Office, has told the BIO International Convention that despite inter partes review proceedings appearing to favour petitioners, the USPTO is not pro-petitioner, patent owner or even IPR. 17 June 2015
Americas
A US appeals court has affirmed that a patent covering the method of detecting foetal abnormalities in pregnant mothers is ineligible for protection because it applies to a “natural phenomenon”. 17 June 2015
Americas
US law firm Blank Rome has hired Paul Zagar as a partner to its intellectual property group. 17 June 2015
Americas
An enormous increase in the number of biotech articles published in Brazil indicates that the area is experiencing strong expansion when considered in the global context, as Gabriel Di Blasi and Marisa Moura Momoli of Di Blasi, Parente & Associados report. 16 June 2015
Asia-Pacific
There is increasing demand for plant variety protection in Brazil. Renata Campello Afonso of Luiz Leonardos & Advogados reports. 16 June 2015
Biotech
The Enlarged Board of Appeal of the European Patent Office has issued the second decisions in the so-called Broccoli and Tomato cases. Albrecht von Menges of Uexküll & Stolberg examines the decisions and their implications. 16 June 2015