07 July 2020
China releases Latest Draft Amendments to Patent Law
www.twobirds.com/en/news/articles/2020/china/china-releases-latest-draft-amendments-to-patent-law

The draft amended Patent Law contains several other new provisions in addition to the Patent Linkage and the SPP provisions, such as the draft Article 24 which proposes a six month grace period of novelty for an ...

24 July 2020
China Updates Drug Registration Rules and the Measures for Monitoring Drug Production – Part 1
www.twobirds.com/en/news/articles/2020/china/china-updates-drug-registration-rules-and-the-measures-for-monitoring-drug-production

Overall, the new DRR and AMMDP provide further clarity to the provisions of the new DAL. The obvious step toward improving the review and approval process, and the reduction in the need for onsite review for many ...

28 March 2019
Bird & Bird wins in a major Supplementary Protection Certificate (SPC) case
www.twobirds.com/en/news/press-releases/2019/germany/bird-and-bird-wins-in-a-major-supplementary-protection-certificate-spc-case

We were successful in defending our clients in a major Supplementary Protection Certificate (SPC) case.

11 December 2018
Pemetrexed: Italian Court reversed the first instance decision ordering a PI on the basis of Eli Lilly's patent
www.twobirds.com/en/news/articles/2018/italy/italian-court-reversed-the-first-instance-decision-ordering-a-pi-on-the-basis-of-eli-lillys-patent

Diverging from the previous decision, the Court pointed out that the relevance of the file history to construe the scope of protection of a patent and then the infringement of equivalence has to be carefully and ...

11 May 2020
COVID-19: New German legislation to fight pandemic may affect granted German patents
www.twobirds.com/en/news/articles/2020/germany/covid-19-new-german-legislation-to-fight-pandemic-may-affect-granted-patents

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic the German government has recently passed a “corona crisis package”. The so-called Act for protecting the Population in the Event of an Epidemic Situation of National Importance, the ...

22 December 2020
High Court considers requirements for an exclusive patent licence (Neurim v Mylan)
www.twobirds.com/en/news/articles/2020/uk/high-court-considers-requirements-for-an-exclusive-patent-licence

In the LexisNexis case analysis, Senior IP Associate, Will Smith, talks about the decision in the following matter: Neurim Pharmaceuticals (1991) Ltd & Anor v Generics UK Ltd (t\a MYLAN) [2020] EWHC 3270 (Pat). This ...