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Chemistry & Life Sciences Newsletter - May 2009

Features:

  • New Partner in Chemistry & Life Sciences Group
  • Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Joins the EPC
  • San Marino to Join the EPC
  • Customs Authorities Can Exercise Administrative Powers under Local Law in Agreed-Destruction Cases
  • UK House of Lords Dismisses Appeal in Pharmaceutical Sufficiency Case
  • EPO Enlarged Board Decision in the WARF Referral
  • Pharmaceuticals Companies’ Attempts to Control Parallel Importation By Restriction of Supply Reviewed by the ECJ
  • Law of Double Patenting Under Scrutiny in the EPO
  • First Successful Claim of UK Employee Compensation
  • ECJ Case C-452/07 Terminated

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Changes to EPC Implementing Regulations - May 2009

Features:

  • 1 Divisional Applications
  • 2 Plurality of Independent Claims, and Clarity and Conciseness of the Claims
  • 3 Mandatory Response to the Extended European Search Report
  • 4 Mandatory Response to the PCT Report of Applications where EPO acted as ISA or IPEA
  • 5 Identification of Amendments

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Chemistry & Life Sciences - Nov 2008

Features:

  • New EPO Review of Patentability of Computer Programs
  • "Probability of Failure" Argument Not Persuasive in the Case of Major Intractable Diseases
  • Recent EPO Decision Interpreting the word "Isolated"
  • More European Patents/Applications Lost through Unclear Parameters
  • Patentee Not Allowed to use PowerPoint in EPO Oral Proceedings
  • Questions on the EU Biotech Directive Referred to the ECJ

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