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Patents and Extensions: Maximising Your Term of Protection
30 June 2010
Patents and Extensions: Maximising Your Term of Protection
This half-day workshop is aimed at participants who are responsible for shaping pharmaceutical patent portfolios. The workshop will address the options for maximising patent protection for pharmaceutical products, both in relation to patent filings and term extensions. The validity and enforceability of improvement patents will be discussed, followed by a discussion of how to decide which patents to seek patent term extensions on and how to maximise these options. Finally, the competition concerns which exist in this field will be examined. By addressing the relevant issues in each of these areas and the associated competition concerns, the workshop leader will draw together the necessary considerations for developing a coherent strategy maximising the term of protection.

 

Workshop Overview

  • Considering the options for maximising product protection.

  • Taking account at an early stage of the factors needed to achieve effective protection.

  • Providing the best position for making decisions on an on-going basis.

  • Devising a patent portfolio strategy.

 

 

Andrew Sharples is a Chartered and European Patent Attorney in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery UK LLP, based in its London office.  He has a background in molecular biology and focuses his practice on the prosecution and exploitation of patents, particularly those with a pharmaceutical or biotechnological content.     His activities include advising on patent portfolio strategies and prosecuting patent and supplementary protection certificate applications as well as the management of patent opposition proceedings. Andrew also provides specialist patent advice on transactional matters, and a significant proportion of Andrew’s practice centres on the conduct of intellectual property litigation, having been involved in matters ranging from disputes before the Patents County Court to the House of Lords.

 

Workshop agenda

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9:00

Registration & Coffee

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9:10

Supplementary Protection Certificates

  • Which patents should extensions be sought for, and ways of achieving the best position for making that decision.
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    9:30

    Improvement Patents

  • To what extent do such patents represent viable opportunities for protecting a product?

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    10:30

    Morning Coffee

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    11:30

    Paediatric Extensions

  • What concerns are raised by the developing case law?
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    12:00

    Competition Concerns

  • The EU Commission’s review one year on, and how this should impact a patent portfolio strategy
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    12:30

    Close of Workshop

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