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Under surveillance: generic and biosimilar MAs
In order to be well prepared before a generic or biosimilar marketing authorisation is approved, drugs companies in the EU may consider monitoring pending applications, says Ruth Franken of Hogan Lovells.
From the EU to Australia: latest SPC developments
Legislative developments surrounding supplementary protection certificates in the EU are moving fast, and may be catching on as far afield as Australia. Gareth Morgan of Olswang explains more.
Brexit and IP: business as usual, for now
Following the UK’s vote to leave the EU, it is business as usual for life sciences companies working with intellectual property, at least for now, says Claire Phipps-Jones of Bristows.
Breathing life into patents
Applicants wishing to extend their patents’ term of protection do not have to necessarily match up the wording of the claims and the label of the relevant drug for there to be infringement by an ANDA, as MaryAnne Armstrong of Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch reports.
Greater convergence: IP and competition law
In Russia, more attention is being paid towards the correlation between IP rights and competition restrictions, and pharma companies should keep abreast of developments, says Ilya Goryachev of Gorodissky & Partners.
What Canada can learn from SPCs in Europe
Unlike in the EU, Canada does not have additional pharma patent protection to compensate for regulatory delays, but that looks set to change, as Shirley Liang, an IP lawyer in Canada, explains.
Avoiding the Actavis SPC trap
The UK Intellectual Property Office has issued a favourable decision on an SPC for an “innovative” combination product. David Carling and Michael Pears of Potter Clarkson explain the reasoning and examine its implications.
Second medical use patents: why generics are in the dark
Despite several UK court decisions centring on second medical use patents, there are no foolproof ways for generic manufacturers to avoid infringement, as Deborah Hart of Kilburn & Strode explains.
Waiving goodbye to SPC rights
The European Commission is considering whether ‘export waivers’ should be introduced in order to partly relax the rules on supplementary protection certificates. Gareth Morgan of Olswang explains more.
How Justice Scalia helped to shape US IP law
During nearly 30 years as a US Supreme Court justice, Antonin Scalia had the unenviable tasks of ruling on homosexuality, the right to carry hand guns, and abortion. Nevertheless, it was a mystery patent case that proved the most difficult. WIPR looks back at some of the most important IP cases of the past few years and how Scalia voted on them.
