Inga-Marlene Pietsch

Nov 3, 2023 | drudge-report.net | Roderick Dirkzwager |Inga-Marlene Pietsch

Supplementary Protection Certificates (SPCs) are a form of patent term extension right that are available in the EU for medicinal products.

Nov 3, 2023 | lexblog.com | Roderick Dirkzwager |Inga-Marlene Pietsch

Inga-Marlene Pietsch is an intellectual property lawyer in Covington’s Life Sciences Transactions team assisting clients in protecting and enforcing their most valuable assets. She works closely with other teams across the firm in particular the Corporate and Regulatory teams. Inga has an extensive contentious and non-contentious IP practice advising companies from the Life Sciences and Technology sectors on complex IP issues with a particular focus on patents.

Sep 13, 2023 | lexblog.com | Bart Van Vooren |Yuliya Gevrenova |Inga-Marlene Pietsch |Max Jerman

Today, the World Intellectual Property Organization (“WIPO”) finished the preparatory session for the draft International Legal Instrument Relating to Intellectual Property, Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge Associated with Genetic Resources (the “Instrument”), which will be discussed and adopted at a diplomatic conference in 2024.

Sep 13, 2023 | lexology.com | Bart Van Vooren |Yuliya Gevrenova |Inga-Marlene Pietsch |Max Jerman

Today, the World Intellectual Property Organization (“WIPO”) finished the preparatory session for the draft International Legal Instrument Relating to Intellectual Property, Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge Associated with Genetic Resources (the “Instrument”), which will be discussed and adopted at a diplomatic conference in 2024.

Sep 12, 2023 | lexblog.com | Inga-Marlene Pietsch

On 11 July 2023 the National Security Act 2023 (the Act) received royal assent and became law. The Act addresses trade secret misappropriation in the context of industrial espionage by a foreign government, making the unauthorised conduct of obtaining, copying, recording or retaining a trade secret, or disclosing or providing access to a trade secret, under certain circumstances, a criminal offence. The maximum penalty is 14 years imprisonment and/or a fine (section 2 of the Act).