Enola bean patent – patent examiner’s decision. Good news – VERY good news!
May 5, 2008
http://www.ciat.cgiar.org/newsroom/enolabean2008.htm
CAS-IP in the news! See the link above for the CIAT (www.ciat.cgiar.org) story about the “Controversial Court Patent Case for Simple Yellow Legume has Become Rallying Point for “Biopiracy” Concerns”
CAS was involved with the patent re-examination (http://www.cas-ip.org/?page_id=42). We will post an update to this case study in due course.
Tags: CAS, patent
Publications - Patent Protection for Plant Material
April 24, 2008
WIPO-UPOV Symposium on the co-existence of patents and plant breeders’ rights in the Promotion of Biotechnological Developments: Patent Protection for Plant Material
Download PDF file (size 28Kb)
Lecture by Mrs. Victoria Henson-Apollonio, Manager, The Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), The Hague, Netherlands.
Author: Victoria Henson-Apollonio
Organised by: the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) and the International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV)
Pages: 5
Language: English
Tags: biotech, Henson-Apollonio, patent, UPOV, WIPO
Is the EPO throwing down the gauntlet on patent applications?
April 4, 2008
http://www.epo.org/topics/news/2008/20080401.html
Despite receiving more patent applications than ever, statistics published this month have revealed the EPO granted almost 13% less patents in 2007 than in the previous year. EPO president, Alison Brimelow said “What we [therefore] need is not more patents, but more good patents.”
Any takers??
Tags: patent
Patents & non-obviousness
April 1, 2008
I received more than one email alert today with a mention of this story. Not in the field of agriculture but nonetheless important news for those who deal with patents. See the story on the patentlyo.com blog: http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2008/03/cafc-overturns.html
“CAFC (Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit)Overturns Jury Verdict of Non-Obviousness Because Combination Yields Predictable Results”
For supporting document; court decision.
http://www.cafc.uscourts.gov/opinions/07-1415.pdf
Tags: patent
