Medicines – In Support of Follow-On Innovation
25 Sep 2018
In a recent article Professor Christopher Holman (University of Missouri - Kansas City School of Law) again comes out in support of patent protection for the embodiment of follow-on innovation in medicines (Christopher M. Holman, “Inside views: Why Follow-On Pharmaceutical Innovations Should Be Eligible For Patent Protection”, Intellectual Property Watch, 21 September 2018). Follow-on pharmaceutical innovation seeks to improve upon existing medicines by a range of alternatives such as offering a safer and more effective variation than the original product ...
Joint submission to the SPC on Post Filing data – February 2018
INTERPAT & IPO have submitted a white paper on the Determination of Experimental Post Filing Data.
Click on the links below to read the submission:
On the Determination of Post-Filing Experimental Data latest version
Appendix File_On the Determination of Post-Filing Experimental Data.revised1
INTERPAT sponsors a Forum for the exchange of best practices in Patent Office management and patent examination, Rio de Janeiro, 3-4 July 2017
INTERPAT has sponsored a forum of patent office examiners and managers from the Latin America region and Europe. The Forum was titled "Responding to the challenge of evolving biopharmaceutical innovation: Forum for the exchange of best practices in Patent Office management and patent examination" and was held at the Windsor Excelsior hotel in Rio de Janeiro on 3 - 4 July 2017.
The Forum included presentations and round-table discussions INTERPAT representatives, R&D experts from USA and Brazil, managers and patent examiners from the Intellectual Property ...
WORLD IP Day!
27th April was World IP Day, which is focusing in 2017 on how innovation is making lives healthier, safer, and more comfortable, and on turning problems into progress. A number of industry associations took the opportunity to post messages for IP Day - links to a selection of these messages are provided below.
IFPMA: https://www.ifpma.org/global-health-matters/medical-miracles-call-for-moonshot-mindsets/
EFPIA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_9L1zraG_A&feature=y