5 January 2022PatentsHailey Bureau and Olayinka Oladele
Patent applications: Kite raises the game
This year, two precedential decisions by the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, Amgen v Sanofi (2021) and Juno Therapeutics v Kite Pharma (2021) have elevated the standards for satisfying the statutory requirement for enablement and written description of a patent application in the context of inventions that involve antibodies.
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1 February 2013 The differences in the ways US patent and European patent (EP) applications are drafted often pose problems during substantive examination when an EP application is filed based on a US application.