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Pharma & Biotech
Contemnor to pay Rs20 million to Pfizer in Indian patent infringement case
27 February 2023Pfizer Inc. and its group companies filed a suit bearing no. CS (COMM) No. 442 of 2021 titled as Pfizer Inc. & Ors. v. Triveni Interchem Private Limited & Ors. before the Delhi High Court for infringement of patent IN 218291 for the compound palbocic...
2023 China IP Awards Submissions now open
20 January 2023In March, Asia IP magazine will announce the winners of the 2023 Asia IP China Awards. To be considered, you need to submit your information now.
2022 India IP Awards
31 October 2022Intellectual property owners have been overwhelmingly positive about the changes they’ve seen to India’s IP regime over recent years.
China IP Experts
31 October 2022China has reached the top in terms of global patent filings.
How safe is a patient’s health care data? AIPPI panel explores data privacy around the world.
11 September 2022When does a patient’s personal health care data no longer belong to the patient?
AIPPI takes the AIPPI Café live for the first time
11 September 2022Building on the success of its all-virtual AIPPI Café sessions during the Covid-19 pandemic, the International Association for the Protection of International Property launched its inaugural in-person Café set of small group discussions at the AIPPI...
Patent Attorney Gauges Ongoing Cochlear, US University Infringement Suit
16 August 2022As Australian biotech company Cochlear and the University of Pittsburgh engage in a patent infringement dispute in an American court, Dr. Simon Potter, a principal at Spruson & Ferguson in Sydney, said it will be interesting to see how the case will...
Plurality of distinct inventions: Distinct practices of India, Europe and the United States in the f...
31 May 2022Practitioners in the field of intellectual property – and more specifically in patents – are aware that patent protection is awarded to inventor(s) or applicant(s) only for a single invention or a group of closely related inventions in a patent appli...
Medical use claims in ASEAN countries
31 May 2022A method of treatment of human or animal body is either considered a non-patentable subject matter or not capable of industrial application in ASEAN countries. However, some ASEAN countries allow amendments of method of treatment claims to medical us...
Thailand IP Experts 2022
05 July 2022Thailand has made significant progress in strengthening the protection of intellectual property in the country, the government has told the United States. The conversation, held on the sidelines during bilateral talks during this year’s APEC Minister...
Indonesia IP Experts 2022
04 July 2022Nearly 90 percent of businesses in Indonesia’s creative economy lack intellectual property protection, Vice President Ma’ruf Amin said on World Intellectual Property Day in April. “In fact, collaboration, synergy schemes, as well as alignment of...
TRIPS and international pressure on high-income countries to accept TRIPS waiver
30 April 2022In the wake of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, there is an ever-growing urgent need to supply vaccines, new medicines and testing kits, protective clothing etc. With almost 5.9 million lives lost to the Covid-19 pandemic in the last two years (as per...
New Zealand IP Experts 2022
30 April 2022New Zealand has been in the headlines of IP-focused publications and the mainstream media this year, particularly since the Intellectual Property Office of New Zealand (IPONZ) ruled recently that artificial intelligence cannot be an inventor.
IP Experts 2022 Australia
30 April 2022Kangaroos, koalas, the Outback and Bondi Beach dominate the thoughts of those of us not fortunate enough to live down under. (As do, to be fair, the thoughts of deadly creatures like insects and spiders who will happily kill you just for looking at t...
Pakistan IP Experts 2022
30 April 2022Atta-ur-Rahman, former chairman of Pakistan’s Higher Education Commission and president of the Network of Academies of Science of OIC Countries, writing in Pakistan’s The International News, acknowledged recently that Pakistan is challenged by its te...
