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Novartis Loses India Patent on Heart Failure Drug Vymada
19 Sep 2025 04:56 GMT
… Entresto (Sacubitril-Valsartan) patent in India
In its … litigation threats. With the patent now revoked, “companies are … e) - lack of inventive step, 25(2)(g) complete … Novartis’ earlier sacubitril–valsartan patent had expired in January 2023 …
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Germany: effects of the UPC and national patent courts’ coexistence
18 Sep 2025 12:52 GMT
… a European patent.
With respect to the assessment of inventive step, the central … division emphasises, that the assessment of inventive step starts … success (or more in general, non-obviousness) does not follow from the …
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Poland: UPC asserts jurisdiction over Polish patent disputes despite non-membership
18 Sep 2025 12:51 GMT
… as key aspects of patent law including novelty, inventive step and the doctrine … requirements of novelty and inventive step under Polish patent law. The judgment concerning … and inventive step, and reopens one of the most high-profile patent invalidation …
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United Kingdom: the evolution of patent infringement by equivalents with UPC comparative analysis
18 Sep 2025 12:51 GMT
… during the assessment of infringement. Patents for Inventions, Blanco White, 5th … inventive step over the prior art at the priority date of the patent … inventive concept for the Pozzoli inventive step analysis (PozzoliSPA v BDMO SA …
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Türkiye: a comprehensive guide to patent prosecution under the Turkish Industrial Property Law
18 Sep 2025 12:51 GMT
… invention is evaluated for patentability based on novelty, inventive step and industrial applicability. If … any deficiencies or lack of patentability are …
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Specialist chapter: Two years of the UPC as mainstay of European patent litigation
18 Sep 2025 12:51 GMT
… on their business operations and patent litigation strategies.
Preliminary relief: some … the description and drawings, the patent proprietor has contemplated.
This approach … test).
Validity: inventive step
The court’s approach to inventive step remains a hot …
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Greece: navigating patent enforcement, litigation strategies and third-party challenges
18 Sep 2025 12:52 GMT
… also prove the novelty and inventive step of the invention if the … the European Patent Office (EPO) regarding novelty and inventive step.
Unitary patents and the … Unified Patent Court (UPC) became …
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Netherlands: how strategic EPO patent prosecution can intentionally enhance FTO uncertainty for third parties
18 Sep 2025 12:51 GMT
… Article 67 of the European Patent Convention (EPC), which stipulates … paraphrased – that a European patent application shall, from the … enforced.
Drafting and prosecuting patent applications
So far, … Given that Article 56 (Inventive step) is included in the …
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Specialist chapter: How to navigate EPO opposition procedures and patent challenges in Europe
18 Sep 2025 12:51 GMT
… opposition.
Discussion points
How do patent oppositions work?
Oral proceedings
Differences … opponent desires revocation of the patent.
Although oppositions seek to invalidate … not patentable because it is not new, does not involve an inventive step …
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No, Nintendo and Pokémon did not patent ‘summoning characters and making them battle’
17 Sep 2025 19:00 GMT
… Whether this particular patent could unreasonably restrict … potentially invalidate this specific patent: by anticipation or … that invalidates the patent under the patent law rules of … inventive step beyond that idea,” Duan explained. In short, you can patent …