EDITORIAL NOTE: This is part 3 of a multi-part series by author Neal Solomon. If you have missed previous installments please see part 1: The Myth of Patent Quality; and part 2: Patent Quality Relies ...

The Patent Court recently issued the first application of the UK Supreme Court’s Actavis v Eli Lilly ruling. Arnold J considered the impact on novelty of the doctrine of equivalents The Patents Court ...

In the first of a two-parter, lawyers at Santarelli analyse the patentability of therapeutic inventions where publication of ...

It is a central tenet of patent law that anything that is not new is unpatentable. This follows from the principle that patents cannot be extended to material that is already in the public domain. In ...

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“Keeping in mind the distinction between preemption and novelty/non-obviousness should aid in understanding Supreme Court and Federal Circuit case law on patent eligibility even if the courts continue ...

Article 24(4) of the Chinese Patent Law provides that a patent application will not lose its novelty if, within six months before the filing date, the subject matter of the application is disclosed by ...

A variety of patent-related searches are available to intellectual property attorneys and their clients. These include the state of the art search, the novelty search, the validity search, the ...

Academic researchers have historically been compelled to publish the fruits of their scientific research, as publications are the primary basis for promotion, tenure and research funding. But ...