Eliot Ward

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UPC Weekly - Alexion v Samsung & Amgen - Patentee’s attempted U-turn on claim interpretation foiled by UPC Court of Appeal

Jan 13, 2025 | mewburn.com | Eliot Ward

2025 Week 2Tailoring one’s claim interpretation for the jurisdiction at hand can be a canny way of maximizing your patent’s footprint. You can argue a narrow interpretation during grant and validity proceedings (e.g. at the EPO) and a nice broad one for enforcement in the courts. Such strategies are particularly tempting in Europe where file wrapper estoppel is limited and where the national courts show varying degrees of adherence to the findings of the EPO.
Cambiotics: a novel treatment for PFAS ‘forever chemicals’

Nov 13, 2024 | mewburn.com | Charles Orton-Jones |Eliot Ward

PFAS are toxic pollutants causing health problems globally. There is currently no treatment. Now a Danish startup is producing a probiotic, which it claims, flushes out the toxins via natural processes. CEO Peter Holme Jensen tells Mewburn Ellis about Cambiotics’ approach. Forward: features are independent pieces written for Mewburn Ellis discussing and celebrating the best of innovation and exploration from the scientific and entrepreneurial worlds.
Inside the Asian microbiome library

Jul 3, 2024 | mewburn.com | Eliot Ward

AMILI co-founder Dr Jeremy Lim takes us on a tour of his remarkable lab, where the mysteries of the gut microbiome are being unlocked to treat cardiovascular, brain, gut, metabolic and other disorders. Forward: features are independent pieces written for Mewburn Ellis discussing and celebrating the best of innovation and exploration from the scientific and entrepreneurial worlds. What is a human being? The glib answer is...
How helpful are biological deposits in patent prosecution at the EPO?

Jun 14, 2024 | mewburn.com | Eliot Ward

In our article about biological deposits under the Budapest Treaty, we explored the deadlines and formalities for depositing microorganisms so that the deposit can be referenced in a patent application. For the present article, we reviewed the prosecution history of over 45 cases at the European Patent Office (EPO). We found that, when made correctly, a reference to a deposited microorganism can be very helpful in overcoming a range of objections from the EPO’s examiners.
UNITARY PATENT AND UPC TO COVER ROMANIA FROM 1 SEPTEMBER 2024

Jun 5, 2024 | mewburn.com | Eliot Ward

The first enlargement of the UPC and Unitary Patent (UP) territory will happen on 1 September 2024, when Romania’s ratification of the UPC Agreement enters into force. Any UPs that are registered at the EPO on or after 1 September 2024 will cover eighteen countries: Romania and the seventeen countries that have been included since the UP/UPC system went live on 1 June 2023. The deadline for requesting registration of a UP is one month after the grant date of the underlying European patent.
The link between the microbiome and chronic liver disorders

Feb 29, 2024 | mewburn.com | Eva Amsen |Eliot Ward

Guts UK is the charity for the digestive system. It funds scientific research such as Nicholas Ilott’s investigation into the link between the microbiome and chronic liver disorders, as Mewburn Ellis discovers. Forward: features are independent pieces written for Mewburn Ellis discussing and celebrating the best of innovation and exploration from the scientific and entrepreneurial worlds.
Biological Deposits under the Budapest Treaty (1977): important considerations for filing strategies and public accessibility

Feb 20, 2024 | mewburn.com | Eliot Ward

Biological material, which the EPO understands to be any material containing genetic information and capable of reproducing itself or being reproduced in a biological system (Rule 26(3) EPC), is patentable in all major jurisdictions around the world.
UPC at four months old - a review

Oct 4, 2023 | mewburn.com | Eliot Ward

The UPC is now four months old and the Court of First Instance is already quite busy. As of 4 October 2023, 46 orders have been published on the UPC’s “Decisions and Orders” webpage. Many are orders for preliminary measures such as preliminary injunctions, while others relate to opt-out status, the admissibility of revocation actions filed at the Central Division and the criteria for disclosing written pleadings and evidence to the public. What patterns and themes emerge?
When is a Home Too Much Home?

Aug 11, 2023 | latterdaysaintmag.com | Eliot Ward

Many years ago, I had a family member who was working for a company building new homes in Beverly Hills. I remember going on a tour of one of the homes while it was being built. Wow, it was huge! The master bedroom was unlike anything I had ever seen. There was a master bedroom entry way, a master bedroom sitting room, the actual master bedroom, his and her bathrooms and his and her closets. (closets so large that there was room for several pieces of gym equipment).
7 Surprises: How the Coronavirus has Affected Real Estate

Jul 3, 2023 | latterdaysaintmag.com | Eliot Ward

Eliot Ward holds an MBA from Darden (University of Virginia) and specializes in real estate investments in the Salt Lake City/Utah County markets of Northern Utah. People ask every day about how residential real estate will perform amidst the coronavirus and pandemic backdrop. Some folks (buyers and investors) are hoping to score a deep discount on property. Will they be able to do this?