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Creative Claiming Strategies


Innovator companies in the biopharmaceutical space are looking to their patent counsel for creative patent claiming strategies to protect their assets. In this article, using the Federal Circuit opinions in...Read more

Angela Sebor
Director Intellectual Property, Tolmar, Inc., USA

Xiaoguang Michelle Gao
Associate VP - Assistant General Patent Counsel , Eli Lilly and Company, USA
Stacy Lewis
Law Clerk, Finnegan, USA
Technical Data Rights in the Context of the Marine Industry 

This article focuses on the main legal aspects of technical data rights in the context of the marine industry. The article will overview how the increased volume of data and...Read more
Tuomas Keltto
Specialist Legal Counsel, Tech Law, Wärtsilä Finland Oy, Finland
Tom Barr
Managing Counsel, Tech Law, Wärtsilä Voyage UK, UK
Induced Infringement under US Patent Law

Induced infringement finds its basis in 35 U.S.C. § 271(b) and holds a person, liable if he actively causes infringement, even if the actor himself is not the direct infringer....Read more

Anagha Tendulkar
In-house Patent Counsel, Cipla, India

Jatin Jalundhwala
Joint President Legal and Company Secretary, Adani Group, India
German Patent Modernisation Act – A Game Changer for Protection of Confidential Information in Patent Litigation?

Protection of confidential information disclosed in litigation used to be insufficient in Germany. For a long time, it was only regulated fragmentarily. Despite the implementation of the Trade Secret Directive...Read more

Nikita Alymov
Attorney-at-law , Hoffmann Eite , Germany

Dirk Schüßler-Langeheine
attorney-at-law, partner , Hoffmann Eitle , Germany
Written Description Requirement of Patentability
One of the requirements for an invention to be patentable is written description, which requires that the invention be described in sufficient detail for one of ordinary skill in the...Read more

Anagha Tendulkar
In-house Patent Counsel, Cipla, India
A right to copy, right?
Copyright is an intellectual property right that vests automatically. The question arises, whether the right has international enforcement due to the nature of the right. Copyright subsists the moment it...Read more

Madelein Kleyn
Chief Legal and IP Officers, Omnisient Rf Pty, South Africa
Copyright Protection of Websites

Russian Civil Code does not explicitly recognize websites as objects of copyright. This does not mean that websites are not protected by copyright, but implies the following questions instead: What...Read more

Natalia Gulyaeva
Office Managing Partner, Hogan Lovells (CIS), Russia

Vadim Nyunyaev
Head of the Intellectual Property Projects (Ph. D. in Law), Marketing Communications Department, Corporate Communications Block, Gazprom Neft, Russia
Freedom to Operate Conundrum
Growing a patent portfolio by protecting the innovation derived from research and development investment is merely the beginning to the creation of value.
Freedom to use, sell and otherwise...Read more

Madelein Kleyn
Chief Legal and IP Officers, Omnisient Rf Pty, South Africa
Going off Grid: A New Idea for Systemizing Intellectual Property Enforcement from TED Conferences

Last year’s COVID-19 mandated shift to virtual environments forced many companies to start producing new types of content tailored principally to online consumption. This seemingly overnight transition to digital distribution,...Read more

Hunter Vanaria
Associate Counsel, TED Conferences, USA
2020s Strategic Patent Portfolio Management -
Challenges and Opportunities of a new Decade in a Traditional Product Producing Company

In the early twenties, traditional product producing companies face rapidly transforming business environments with ongoing technology shifts, converging industries and increased global competition. This changing world puts increasing demands on...Read more

Hanns Hallesius
Former Head of IP Electrolux and Senior Advisor Strategic IP Management, Hallesius Consulting, Bromma, Sweden