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28 September 2021BiotechnologyMuireann Bolger

LSPN LIVE 2021: an ‘unmissable opportunity’

Over the past year, the life sciences sector has proved to be of vital importance in the fight against COVID-19. Now more than ever, it is imperative that IP professionals are best positioned to protect and leverage innovation in this fast-paced industry.

LSIPR welcomes IP professionals working in the life sciences arena to attend LSPN LIVE 2021: Protecting and leveraging innovation in the life sciences on October 5-7. Here, you can join more than 200 patent professionals to explore how to protect and capitalise on invaluable life sciences innovations. Make sure and secure your place now.

Following on from the hugely successful in-person LSPN conferences in Boston, London, Singapore and San Francisco, this three-day online conference takes a global view of the patent protection landscape and delves into today’s cutting-edge topics. More than half of LSPN LIVE attendees are in-house counsel.

An ‘unrivalled gathering’

Speaker Penny Gilbert, partner and founding member of law firm Powell Gilbert, described the conference as an “unmissable opportunity” for life sciences IP professionals.

“LSPN LIVE presents an unrivalled gathering of in-house patent counsel from established and fledgling pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies coming together to listen to updates on patent prosecution and enforceability,” she said.

“This is an invaluable opportunity for delegates to submit pressing questions, and source specialist IP attorneys to assist with constructing strong IP portfolio strategies for this year and beyond.”

Read more about the full agenda here.

Gilbert noted that in her session, “ Following Brexit, what practical steps can we continue to make to minimise patent risk for life sciences companies?” she and her fellow partner, Zoë Butler, will be providing an update on the extent to which Brexit has affected life sciences patents

She said: “There has been little, if any, substantive change to prosecuting and litigating patents, but there is a change to patent extension provisions (affecting the grant of supplementary patent certificates). Decisions by the Court of Justice of the European Union will also have an impact.”

She added that the UK’s withdrawal from the Agreement for a Unified Patent Court (UPC) is also likely to have significant implications for life sciences.

“We will be discussing how this affects life sciences companiesand particularly their European litigation strategies,” said Gilbert.

Critical issues

Other sessions will offer valuable insight into the sector issues of critical current importance, including:

  • What are the main challenges facing the US patent system and how do we prepare for them?
  • UK focus: the current status of UK and UPC strategies
  • How to ensure effective protection for your antibodies portfolio
  • Strategies in second medical use cases
  • Fully exploiting your innovations: best practice in invention harvesting
  • How is AI disrupting the patent strategies of life sciences companies?
  • Best-in-class case studies
  • The impact of key judgments and political jolts
  • Recent case law from a range of jurisdictions

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