Plants which are produced according to essentially biological processes need to be held patentable, despite EPO Guidelines which were introduced in 2017 to exclude them from patentability. The EPO…
For the first time, the European Patent Office has revoked a patent as a consequence of amended regulations which exclude plants and animals obtained by an essentially biological breeding process for…
One of the points sometimes debated in patent cases is the date when a claim for patent infringement becomes "time-barred" (i.e. the date on which it "prescribes"). The traditional position adopted…
