Sentences with phrase «mean pharmaceutical patents»

Secondly, there may very well be practical concerns at play that mean pharmaceutical patents are particularly susceptible to the Promise doctrine.

Not exact matches

This is particularly relevant in the case of pharmaceutical inventions, because the requirement of utility means that the drug for which a patent is sought must achieve the result promised in the specification.

I mean when russia started granting pharmaceutical patent (chemical per se) whether use claims are granted or not?

The key patent cases that I have to address and consider currently in the chemical, pharmaceutical and biotechnological cases (however, it should be appreciated there are several more) are the recent Alice (patent subject matter eligibility), Shaw Industries Group, Inc. (accused infringers can use AIA review procedures without undermining their case in later litigation), Merck & Cie (PTAB AIA review decisions must be reviewed with deference on appeal) and In re Cuozzo Speed Technologies, LLC, (broadest reasonable interpretation for IPR versus ordinary meaning for litigation is appropriate) decisions as well as the USPTO's ever developing guidelines as to patent subject matter eligibility and obviousness determinations.

32 The purpose of such fees, as has been stated by the Federal Court of Appeal in Actelion Pharmaceuticals Ltd v Canada, 2008 FCA 90 at paragraph 13, is not only to provide the Patent Office with a means of recovering administration costs, but also to rid the proliferation of deadwood patents.