A User's Guide to Intellectual Property in Life Sciences

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-1-5265-1175-1
Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic

Buch, Englisch, 880 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 213 mm, Gewicht: 953 g

Life Sciences is one of the most innovative and complex areas of law. It is currently undergoing a period of intense transformation, with companies facing an ever-increasing level of regulation as well as strict cost management in order to remain competitive and profitable.

The latest in "A User's Guide to." series it covers life sciences in relation to:

- patents
- copyright
- trade marks; and

- data protection

The book covers UK law with references to significant EPO cases. A key part of the book is the coverage of case law. Case studies and detailed analysis of the key cases, eg the Kymab mouse case, the human genome sciences case, and the pregabalin case feature heavily helping to put this often complex area of law into context.

Where appropriate and for comparison purposes, approaches of key foreign jurisdictions are summarised and for ease of use there are clearly signposted.

A key text for practitioners specialising in life sciences and intellectual property in general and patents officers dealing with life sciences applications.

This title is included in Bloomsbury Professional's Intellectual Property and IT online service.

Autoren/Hrsg.

England, Paul

Cohen, Simon

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Common Law (UK, USA, Australien u.a.)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Part I Patents in the Life Sciences: Validity and Enforcement

Chapter 1 Requirements for a Valid Patent 1: Novelty

Chapter 2 Requirements for a Valid Patent 2: Inventive Step

Chapter 3 Requirements for a Valid Patent 3: Patentable Subject Matter and Exclusions

Chapter 4 Requirements for a Valid Patent 4: Sufficiency

Chapter 5 Patent Infringement 1: Scope of Protection of Claims

Chapter 6 Patent Infringement 2: Acts of Infringement

Chapter 7 Patent Infringement 3: Defences

Chapter 8 Patent Infringement 4: Remedies

Part II Patent Ownership, Dealings and Litigation

Chapter 9 The European Patent System and Obtaining a Patent

Chapter 10 Rights in a Patent

Chapter 11 Patent Dealings

Chapter 12 Patent Proceedings in the Courts of England and Wales

Chapter 13 Amendment and Parallel Proceedings in the EPO and the English Courts

Chapter 14 Terminating Patent Agreements and Points of Dispute

PART III Other Rights Protecting Life Sciences Subject Matter

Chapter 15 Supplementary Protection Certificates

Chapter 16 Data and Market Exclusivity Rights

Chapter 17 Trade Secrets

Chapter 18 Plants and Genetic Resources

Chapter 19 Trade Marks, Passing Off, Designs and Copyright

Chapter 20 Exhaustion of Rights, IP Offences and Customs Powers

Chapter 21 Personal Data - GDPR Rights and Obligations

Coda Brexit

Appendices

Appendix A Patents Act 1977

Appendix B Trade Secrets (Enforcement, etc.) Regulations 2018

Appendix C Intellectual Property (Enforcement, etc.) Regulations 2006

Appendix D Regulation (EC) No 469/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 May 2009 concerning the supplementary protection certificate for medicinal products

Appendix E Regulation (EC) No 1901/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 December 2006 on medicinal products for paediatric use

Appendix F Regulation (EC) No 141/2000 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 1999 on orphan medicinal products

Appendix G European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018

Über Autor(innen)

Cohen, Simon
Simon Cohen is a partner in the IP/IT group at Taylor Wessing and heads the International Patents group.

England, Paul
Paul England is a solicitor at Taylor Wessing, London, UK.

Dr Paul England is the senior professional support lawyer in the Patents Group at Taylor Wessing where he specialises in UK and multi-jurisdictional patent litigation. He has a particular interest in life sciences subject matter and associated exclusivity issues, having begun his career as a scientist and taken a doctorate in biochemistry and molecular biology at the University of Oxford. Paul's work covers advice and training to the Patents Group on these areas of law as well as providing advice and value-added services to clients.

Paul publishes regularly on patent law and exclusivity right developments, with over 50 papers in peer-reviewed journals, and he speaks at conferences several times a year. He is leading the Patents Group and clients on the UPC and Unitary Patent and the implications of Brexit on these and other issues in the patents and exclusivity rights area of the life sciences. Paul is the Consulting Editor of Intellectual Property in the Life Sciences (Second edition) and Patent Transactions in the Life Sciences (Globe Law and Business). He is also the author of 'Expert Privilege' in Civil Evidence (Hart Publishing). Paul is on the Editorial Board of Intellectual Property Life Sciences Review and a correspondent for Bio-Science Law Review. He is Secretary of The Academy of Experts and chairs the Lawyers Network of Linacre College, Oxford.

Paul is rated by peers and clients in LMG Euromoney's Rising Stars 2017.

Simon Cohen is a partner in the IP/IT group at Taylor Wessing and heads the International Patents group.