Voir l’article d’Intellogist qui analyse le nouvel outil.
Potentiellement utile comme complément à d’autres recherches que vous pouvez effectuer.
Nouvel outil potentiellement utile pour vos opinions/recherches en brevets: Google’s “Prior Art Finder”
August 15, 2012Une décision intéressante si vous devez contester une objection d’ajout de matière en Europe en brevets
August 10, 2012Voir l’article du Blog du Droit Européen des Brevets
WIPO/OMPI: statistiques générales mondiales en PI pour 2012
August 10, 2012Voir la publication 2012 WIPO IP Facts and Figures
Global Innovation Index
July 3, 2012Publié par l’OMPI
http://www.wipo.int/pressroom/en/articles/2012/article_0014.html
(mais le Canada est sorti du top 10)
Graphiques intéressants :
Innovation Metropolis – Which Country is Best to do What :
http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/pressroom/en/documents/pr_2012_715_3.pdf
http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/pressroom/en/documents/pr_2012_715_2.pdf
Entente sur le brevet unitaire en Europe
June 29, 2012(L’item qui restait à négocier, l’endroit du tribunal pour les litiges, a été résolu en obtenant un compromis en divisant la Cour entre Paris, Londres et Munich)
Webinaires de l’Office européen des brevets: stratégies de PI pour les entreprises
June 12, 2012Une collection intéressante de webinaires d’une heure chacun sur les notions de base en PI pour les entreprises (e.g. comment vendre l’idée de protéger la PI aux PMEs, etc.)
Voir: https://e-courses.epo.org/course/view.php?id=104
Accélération d’examen en Grande-Bretagne si vous avez un rapport d’examen positif au PCT
June 12, 2012Un document utile pour les gens qui n’ont pas ou peu d’expérience en négociation de licences de PI
June 6, 2012How to deal with IP-related issues in transnational negotiations un factsheet développé par le IPR Helpdesk en Europe
Manuel de conception de cours sur la propriété intellectuelle
June 1, 2012L’OEB a développé un manuel de conception de cours sur la propriété intellectuelle qui peut être utile pour établir les grandes lignes de contenu d’un cours sur la PI. Les références à la loi/jurisprudence sont plus européennes mais la façon de présenter les concepts est néanmoins intéressante à examiner
Voir sur le site de l’OEB (le manuel est disponible en anglais seulement pour le moment)
Dossiers de poursuite de demandes de brevets chinois sont désormais disponibles en ligne
May 29, 2012Voir : China Patent Inquiry System” (CPQUERY)
Résumé de l’OEB: http://www.epo.org/searching/asian/asia-updates/updates-2012/20120529a.html
Rapport intéressant du USPTO sur les liens entre la PI et l’économie américaine
April 25, 2012Voir le rapport du USPTO
Extraits intéressants comme:
Between 2010 and 2011, the economic recovery led to a 1.6 percent increase in direct employment in IP-intensive industries, faster than the 1.0 percent growth in non-IP-intensive industries. Growth in copyright-intensive industries (2.4 percent), patent-intensive industries (2.3 percent), and trademark-intensive industries (1.1 percent) all outpaced gains in non-IP-intensive industries.
Avec plusieurs tableaux de statistiques intéressantes (voir dans le document pdf) comme:
Table 2. Percent of Product and Process Innovations for which Patents were Considered an Effective Mechanism for Appropriating the Returns to Innovation, by Industry.
Table 3. Industries with Above-Average Trademark Intensity
Table 4. Industries with Five or More Appearances in the Listings of Top 50 Trademark Registering Companies, FY 2006-10
Table 7. Trademark-Intensive Industries with Top 100 Global Brands in 2011
Table 8. Trademark Registrations by Class, Ranked by Number of Registrations, FY 2000-09
Ainsi que des cartes pour voir des bassins d’activités en PI aux États-Unis:
Map 2. Trademark-Intensive Industries’ Share of Covered Employment by State, 2010
Map 3. Patent-Intensive Industries’ Share of Covered Employment by State, 2010
Article sur la protection de droits de PI en Chine
April 23, 2012Voir l’article de Forbes
J’aime entre autres la suggestion de parfois diviser, lorsque possible, la production d’un article à différents endroits en Chine et de garder la fabrication d’éléments essentiels à l’interne.
Article sur la stratégie de dépôts de brevets
April 23, 2012(J’aime la notion de “filing tiers” vers la fin de l’article)
60 innovations marquantes françaises
April 23, 2012Voir le site de l’INPI
Analyse de l’expression “Object of the Invention” en brevets par la Cour d’appel fédérale
April 17, 2012Voir dans Mylan Pharmaceuticals ULC v. AstraZeneca Canada Inc. , 2012 FCA 109 (April 11, 2012)
Extraits pertinents:
[22] For convenience, I set out again the one sentence in the 55-page patent on which Mylan relies in order to show that anastrozole not only inhibits aromatase, but also produces fewer side effects than AG.
It is a particular object of the present invention to provide aromatase inhibitory compounds with fewer undesirable side effects than [AG].
[23] It will be recalled that the question is whether the words “object of the present invention” mean that anastrozole produces fewer effects than AG, as Mylan argues, or whether, as AstraZeneca says, it means that this is what the invention aims to do, without promising that it has succeeded.
(i) undue reliance on dictionary definition
[24] The Judge stated (at para. 132) that the plain meaning of the word “object” suggests that it means an aim to be fulfilled, and referred to the following part of the definition of “object” given in the The Oxford English Dictionary. 3rd ed., on line version:
A goal, purpose, or aim; the end to which effort is directed; the thing sought, aimed at, or striven for.
[25] Mylan makes two points. First, the Judge put undue weight on the dictionary definition of “object”, rather than considering its meaning in the context of patent law. Counsel referred us to cases, including Amfac Foods Inc. v. Irving Pulp & Paper, Ltd. (1986), 12 C.P.R. (3d) 193 (F.C.A.) at 199, where the Court relied on an “object clause” to define the scope of the invention. On the basis of these authorities, he argued that the “object of an invention” was virtually a legal term of art and formed part of the definition of the invention.
[26] I do not agree. Patents are not required to contain a clause describing the object of the invention. When they do, the meaning of the object clause depends on the specific context, including the wording of the particular clause in question and its relationship to the rest of the patent. Indeed, in oral argument counsel conceded that object clauses should not necessarily always be construed as promises of the invention.
[27] Second, counsel for Mylan said that the Judge referred to only some of the dictionary synonyms for, or definitions of, “object”; in particular, he omitted “purpose”, a word that connotes what the invention does. In my view, however, this kind of close semantic parsing of the Judge’s reasons in this case is not productive. Reading them in their entirety, I am satisfied that the Judge placed relatively little weight on the dictionary definitions in reaching his conclusion that the patent does not promise that anastrozole has fewer side effects than AG. For example, he said (at para. 139):
In sum, the plain language of the patent, when read in the context of the patent as a
whole, does not support a promise of fewer undesirable side effects. I accept AstraZeneca’s argument that not all statements of advantage in a patent rise to the level of a promise. A goal is not necessarily a promise. The third paragraph of the 420 Patent refers to a forward looking goal, a hoped-for advantage of the invention.
[28] A better reading of the reasons, in my view, is that the Judge relied on the dictionary definitions and synonyms to confirm that, in its ordinary usage, the word “object” is capable of bearing the meaning that he had assigned to it on the basis of other considerations: the evidence of Dr Dowsett discussed at paragraphs 40-42 of these reasons, and his examination of the patent as a whole.
(ii) context of the patent
[29] In examining the patent in its entirety, the Judge noted that, apart from the “object of the invention” sentence in the specification, nowhere else in the patent is there any indication that anastrozole has fewer side effects than AG. In contrast to the statement of the invention’s object, the claims to the compound anastrozole and its inhibitory effects on aromatase are precise and specific. For example, Claim 13 covers “the compound [anastrozole]”, and Claim 15 relates to “The use of the compound [anastrozole] as an inhibitor of the enzyme aromatase.”
[30] Moreover, it is agreed that the 420 patent would be valid if it only claimed the compound anastrozole and its inhibitory effects on aromatase. It was thus unnecessary for the patent also to promise fewer side effects than AG. Even though tests, which AstraZeneca did not disclose, had been conducted showing that anastrozole was selective, a promise in the patent to this effect would be entirely gratuitous, and could only provide competitors with another basis for attacking its validity.
[31] Mylan counters these arguments by saying that the word “provide”, which appears in the object clause, is used elsewhere in the patent in connection with the claims of the patent. Thus, by stating that “it is a particular object of the invention to provide aromatase inhibitory compounds with fewer undesirable side effects than [AG]”, the object clause should, counsel argues, be interpreted as a promise.
[32] I do not agree. In my view, this microscopic approach to the construction of the provisions of a patent is misguided. The fact that such an ordinary word as “provide” is used in sentences containing the claims of the patent does not mean that when used in other sentences, it should be construed as connoting a promise of the patent.
[33] I agree with the Judge that an examination of the patent as a whole supports the conclusion that, unlike the express claims of the patent, the object clause contains no more than a forward-looking aim of the invention. In my view, the fact that side effects are not mentioned elsewhere in the patent is telling.
Collection de bandes dessinées Dilbert sur les brevets
April 16, 2012Vous pouvez faire des recherches similaires par mot-clé comme “Time Management”, etc.
Outil de test de connaissances en PI pour les inventeurs et PME
April 4, 2012Un outil développé par le USPTO pour évaluer vos connaissances en PI et qui suggère, selon les résultats, du matériel de formation
Voir l’outil ipAwarenessAssessment
Bon article explicatif des procédures d’accélération d’examen de demandes de brevets aux États-Unis
March 19, 2012Voir l’article publié dans les Snippets de MBHB
Voir en particulier le tableau-résumé à la page 8 du document
