MONDAY: Major Clanger, in the course of explaining the way in which inventions are considered to be genuinely 'new', explains about the rather convoluted way in which you can get a patent for a previously unknown use of a medicine, and how this involves writing your patent application as a so-called 'Swiss-type claim'.
WEDNESDAY: Major Clanger sees the following update from Herbert Smith LLP:
IP newsflash 24 February 2010
EPO holds new and inventive dosage regimes patentable and abolishes so-called Swiss-type claims
NEXT MONDAY: Major Clanger will open his lecture with "Before we move on, a quick update to something I said last week..."
WEDNESDAY: Major Clanger sees the following update from Herbert Smith LLP:
IP newsflash 24 February 2010
EPO holds new and inventive dosage regimes patentable and abolishes so-called Swiss-type claims
NEXT MONDAY: Major Clanger will open his lecture with "Before we move on, a quick update to something I said last week..."