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JIPLP Express
A rapid-read overview of the main items in this issue
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Current Intelligence |
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Patents
New developments in patent protection for the BRAC 1 gene at the European Patent Office. Two decisions of the Technical Board of Appeal (TBA) of the European Patent Office have confirmed that patents for genetic diagnosis are patentable under the European Patent Convention (EPC). (p. 771)
European Patent Office, Boards of Appeal: res judicata and divisional applications. The Board decided that when a Board had delivered a decision on the claims in a parent application, the decision on these claims was res judicata and it was not possible to pursue these decided claims further in a divisional application. An appeal based upon such claims was inadmissible. (p. 774)
Court of Appeal upholds SPC on enantiomer of known racemate. The Court of Appeal for England and Wales has upheld a decision of the Patents Court confirming the validity of a patent and accompanying supplementary protection certificate to an enantiomer of a
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State of the Art |
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The new private international law of unfair competition and the ‘Rome II’ Regulation (p. 789)
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Improving patent incentives and enforcement (p. 798)
Transparency, trust, and the patent system (p. 809)
Legal status of copyleft before the Spanish courts (p. 815)
Copyright exhaustion in India and the USA: a comparative critique (p. 827)
Public lending right in Ireland: dead poets need not apply (p. 833)
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