Chinese businesses face challenges in ensuring their competitiveness when operating in foreign markets throughout the Belt and Road Initiative. Intellectual property can be key to overcoming these challenges and realising a business’s full potential.
Under the SPC Regulation (No 469/2009), the holder of a basic patent is entitled to an SPC if the patent covers a product that has received a marketing authorisation (MA).
The European Patent Office and the World Intellectual Property Organization have both recently published patent filing figures for 2018.
Sheena Linehan takes a look at the recent legal cases impacting the life sciences landscape. Issues arising from the repurposing of medicines for new uses are a dominant theme in this roundup of legal judgements from the past six months.
The recent publication of results for the UK patent attorney qualifying examinations revealed that this has been a stellar year so far for Potter Clarkson’s trainee patent attorneys.
Potter Clarkson is delighted to have been shortlisted in three categories in the Managing IP Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) Awards 2019.