The epi Committee on Biotechnological Inventions has created the following overview of the national laws of the 38 EPC Contracting States with regard to nucleic acid sequences. The main issue covered by this overview concerns purpose/function limited protection.
The 3-hour pre-seminar, structured in 3 parts, will provide you with 2 parts on the latest development on the unitary patent (UP) and the Unified Patent Court (UPC) and it will be followed by a one-hour workshop on inventive step.
The meeting between epi, EPO and the President of the ACPI (Colombian Association of Intellectual Property) was organized by the EPO in the framework of the cooperation between Europe and Colombia as a follow-up to the recent signature of the Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) agreement in January 2016 in Bogotá.
