Katherine Ellis

UK Supreme Court invalidates transgenic mouse patents for insufficiency

Wednesday, 24 June 2020

Katherine Ellis

Patents

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals' European patent EP 1360287 and its divisional EP 2264163 relate to methods of producing transgenic mice able to produce antibodies having human sequences, and the mice produced thereby. These patents covered the idea of producing mice having mixed human-murine gene sequences that could be subsequently modified t...

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Plants Produced by Essentially Biological Processes are not Patentable in Europe

Tuesday, 19 May 2020

Katherine Ellis

Patents

You might think that an article dealing with broccoli, tomatoes and peppers ought to be on a recipe blog. However, these are the names of high profile cases in an area that, over recent years, has seen more change in European patent law than perhaps any other. It now seems that the European Patent Office wants closure. We reported here on the most ...

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