At a symposium and webinar presented by Fenwick & West and Mewburn Ellis, we asked U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and
European Patent Office examiners to provide perspective on the preparation and prosecution
of patent applications in the areas
of precision medicine and bioinformatics, disciplines that are at the
epicenter of rapidly changing law on patent eligibility
of software and medical diagnostic inventions.
In September, Philipp Kaiser, 39, assumes the directorship
of the Museum Ludwig in Cologne, Germany,
epicenter of new
European art.
With the forthcoming unitary patent system, the
European Union may be about to become the
epicenter of global patent litigation.