Case Law, Pharma, Russia

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A recently published ruling of the Presidium of the Court for Intellectual Rights may turn the issue of cascading divisional applications upside down and endanger many patents granted on such applications. Background A divisional patent application is a separate one that is derived from an initial (parent) application. The necessity of filing such a divisional…

Legislation, PCT, Russia

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Since 29.04.2023, new Russian Patent Requirements (the Requirements) have been in force.  These include several amendments compared to the previous version of the requirements, including an amended provision on the rules for unity of invention. Clause 2 of the previous requirements stipulated that the requirement of unity of invention in relation to a claimed group…