In April 2023, the European Commission (EC) published the pharmaceutical legislation package, including the proposal for a Pharmaceutical Directive[1] , and further proposals for regulations on SPCs…
A sweeping reform of the European Union’s legislation on supplementary protection certificates for medicinal products and plant protection products is currently underway, which features the…
Brazil’s president published, on September 27, Decree No. 11,715/2023 which institutes the “National Strategy for the Development of the Economic-Industrial Health Complex”. This decree aims at…
Since 29.04.2023, new Russian Patent Requirements (the Requirements) have been in force. These include several amendments compared to the previous version of the requirements, including an amended…
In an earlier post I explained the issues that the proposed EU Regulation on SEPs intends to address, and why neither the market nor the courts solve them. Here, I discuss three points of critique…
The Standard Essential Patents (SEPs) Regulation Proposal also known as the IP Action
Plan formally issued by the European Commission today suggests groundbreaking changes
to the standard essential…
After years of preparation, the European Union’s draft legislation for a sweeping reform of the existing legal regime on supplementary protection certificates (SPCs), which includes the establishment…
The Brazilian Patent Statute (Law #9,279/96) does not explicitly prohibit double patenting per se. However, as shown in the statistics set out below, the BRPTO regularly considers double patenting. …
The European Commission’s recently leaked Proposal for a Regulation on standard-essential patents (SEPs), summarized here by Enrico Bonadio and Dyuti Pandya, establishes a framework for transparent…
