This article is part of the Life Sciences Industry 2025 Market Update. Click here to read the full newsletter. Though largely absent from mainstream news, proposed reforms to patent law are poised to affect everything from biotech startups to major …

… focused largely on pending legislative patent reform efforts and the USPTO’s …

Hoping to support pharmaceutical innovation and competitiveness, Stockholm is advocating for a Unitary Patent System. Sweden is one of eleven EU Member States pushing the Danish Presidency to finalise an EU system for enhanced patent protection for …

A bipartisan group of senators and congressional representatives reintroduced the Patent Eligibility Restoration Act (PERA), which aims to reform the law of patent eligibility under 35 U.S.C. § 101. PERA seeks to address the challenges posed by recent …

The May 1 reintroduction of two bills designed to strengthen the certainty of U.S. patents earned praise from the Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO). The Patent Eligibility Restoration Act (PERA Act) would address confusing court decisions by …

… on calls for pharmaceutical patent reform for a while. … nonprofit organization that advocates drug patent reform, says that “excessive” … pharmaceutical industry maintains that patent reform isn’t needed. It … on two bipartisan drug patent reform bills in the …

… of USPTO Director Vidal, pharmaceutical patent reform is likely on the minds … to this political transition, pharmaceutical patent reform garnered renewed attention in the …

Coke Stewart. Photo credit: USPTO As a patent lawyer, Coke Morgan Stewart has mainly represented patent challengers and has previously sat down with IAM to discuss her views on Section 101 and discretionary denials Register for limited access Register to …

This post has been updated since its original publication date. On November 15, 2024, the US Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Intellectual Property advanced the Inventor Diversity for Economic Advancement (IDEA) Act, one of three significant bills it …