The governments of New Zealand and Australia have agreed on a new trans-Tasman plan to implement a single patent application and examination process for both countries that would provide inventors with a faster, cheaper and more streamlined patent ...

The governments of New Zealand and Australia have agreed on a new trans-Tasman plan to implement a single patent application and examination process for both countries that would provide inventors with a faster, cheaper and more streamlined patent ...

Representatives Harold Rogers (Republican - Kentucky), chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, and Paul Ryan (Republican - Wisconsin), chairman of the House Budget Committee, have raised objections to a measure in the patent reform bill ...

Cécile Derycke and Agnès Roman-Amat discuss the implications of a Civil Supreme Court decision on “defects” and “causal relationships”. The French Civil Supreme Court (Cour de Cassation) has upheld for the first time a court of appeal judgment ...

A US Senate committee has been warned that there could be “regulatory chaos” if proposed legislation that seeks to overturn the pre-emption authority of the US Food and Drug Administration over medical devices is signed into law 1 . Former FDA chief ...