Dutch e-cigarette manufacturer NJOY attacked a patent held by its competitor VMR Products, a subsidiary of Juul Labs. The challenged patent (EP 3 626 092, “EP’092”) related to an electronic cigarette, ...

The UPC Court of Appeal has now provided clear guidance on how the UPC should determine whether a patent involves an inventive step. This endorses the “holistic” approach, establishing what the ...

Proposed reforms to inventive step requirements mean stricter criteria, but will bring Australia’s law closer to that of its trading partners, says Magda Bramante of Phillips Ormonde Fitzpatrick The ...

“U.S. courts have made clear that mere plausibility is not the test for enablement, finding that patentees could otherwise obtain patent rights to purported inventions consisting of little more than ...

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Article 22 of the Patent Act provides that, where an invention can be easily made by a person having ordinary skill in the art (PHOSITA) based on prior art, no invention patent shall be granted, ...

In good news for patients, Indian Patent Office has refused a patent on MNC firm AbbVie's blockbuster immunology therapy Rinvoq, paving the.

In November 2019, the China National Intellectual Property Agency (CNIPA) issued new patent examination guidelines for applying China's "inventive step" requirement, the patentability standard roughly ...

Lawyers at Lavoix provide an overview of the UPC’s approach to inventive step and whether the forum is promoting its own approach rather than following the EPO In patent litigation in Europe, validity ...