As a national strategy, China is trying to move from being a world manufacturing factory to being an innovation leader.  Since the introduction of the “Law of the People’s Republic of China on Progress of Science and Technology” in 2008, China has made staggering progress toward promoting the scientific and technological innovations, which is evidenced by…

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1. The Hatch-Waxman Act The Drug Price Competition and Patent Term Restoration Act, commonly known as the “Hatch-Waxman” Act, was enacted in USA in 1984.  The Act aims to strike a balance between the drug innovators and generic manufacturers by permitting limited extensions of patent term to compensate for market time lost during the drug approval…

On-sale bar is a patentability bar derived from 35 U.S.C. 102 of the U.S. Patent Law.  Under 35 U.S.C. 102(a), a person shall be entitled to a patent unless- (1) the claimed invention was patented, described in a printed publication, or in public use, on sale, or otherwise available to the public before the effective filing…

Well, it’s final—isolated gene is no longer patent eligible in US.  The multi-years long, contentious and emotional fight on the gene patentability climaxed with a straightforward decision from U.S. Supreme Court in Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad, 569 U.S.____ on June 13, 2013.  The case began with Myriad’s identification and sequencing of the two breast cancer-causing…

In a showing of its desire to transform from a world’s factory into an innovation-oriented country, China recently announced the enactment of the third amendment to the Chinese Patent Law. Since adopting its original Patent Law in 1984, China has enacted two amendments, the first in 1992 and the second in 2000. The first amendment…

Introduction On July 12, 2005 , the Federal Circuit issued its en banc decision in Phillips v. AWH Corp., addressing fundamental questions regarding patent claim construction. See Phillips v. AWH Corp., No. 03-1269, -1286 (Fed. Cir. Jul. 12, 2005 ). The decision clarifies a handful of issues central to the claim construction process, in particular, the emphasis that is to be…