Sentences with phrase «additional patent protection»

The same legislation also provides for the granting of supplementary protection certificates (SPCs), which give additional patent protection of up to five years where there has been a regulatory delay in allowing patented medicines to be sold on the EU market.

Not exact matches

It is hard to believe, for example, that Canada could not in the end find common ground with the US on some extension of patent protection for pharmaceuticals, since it was able to do so in the just - completed negotiations with the EU, or that an extension of the term of copyright protection from 50 to 70 years from the agreed baseline would have much if any real practical impact on Canada although it would be seen as a gain by the US given the heavy copyright portfolios of US entertainment companies, allowing them an additional period of time to exploit their copyrighted content.

Following this Notice of Allowance NAI intends to seek a significant number of additional patent claims to further broaden its intellectual property protection.

In a recent development, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was forced to admit that a patented liquid silver solution called Axen30TM when used as a surface disinfectant had the ability to kill multiple strains of MRSA plus additional deadly pathogens such as Avian Influenza A (Bird Flu), Human Corona virus (SARS), Feline Calicivirus (Norovirus), Rotavirus, Campylobacter jjejuni and Acinetobacter baumannii.

The SPC regime may therefore provide additional protection for patents (including process patents) owned by third parties.

The design patent itself requires a twofold analysis that allows you to get protection for your products and additional enforcement procedures to prevent people from stealing your design.

Even after filing a patent application, you might want to limit additional disclosure, depending on the situation, since protection technically only starts when the USPTO grants your patent.

He suggests two additional reforms that would lead to better protection of intellectual property and high - quality patents: One would require clear identification of patent owners, their affiliates, and partners or licensors to provide transparency to defendants in any potential infringement action.

I navigate these various decisions and guidelines by working in collaboration with my clients as to various ways to claim their respective inventions (e.g., claiming non-natural claim elements where needed to illustrate patentably eligible subject matter, or alternatively looking for appropriate arguments that meet the USPTO's guidelines), proper development of a patent specification that can be used for prosecution and litigation purposes (e.g., good actual, prophetic and comparative examples to illustrate the novelty and nonobviousness of the invention while still maintaining a broad claim scope of protection for future enforcement), and continual review of the client's patent landscape (via competitive and white space analyses and updates) to look for additional IP opportunities.

A maximum two years of additional patent rights for an approved drug will be available by a Supplementary Protection Certificate.