The period of gestation for a human being is 9 months. That for an elephant 2 years. For the UPC how long? Not so easy to say. The first big formal effort of creating was the Community Patent Convention of 1975 – a woeful system (rejected by industry twice, at the time and later in […]
Current research for COVID-19 treatments is based on known pharmaceutical active ingredients covered by industrial property titles (patents or supplementary protection certificates). These titles confer to their owner an exclusive right of exploitation on the claimed substances. Consequently, the manufacture by third parties of anti-COVID-19 medicinal products which composition would include protected molecules will require […]
The meeting of intellectual property law and enforcement law, i.e. seizures, is surprising. Article R. 241-1 3° of the Code of Civil Enforcement Procedures states that it is the Intellectual Property Code that sets out the rules for seizure of literary, artistic and industrial property rights. However, the Intellectual Property Code does not provide much […]
