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“Obvious to try” U.S. and UK positions converge
- McDermott Will & Emery
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- United Kingdom, USA
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- July 27 2009
Post KSR, KSR International Co. v. Teleflex Inc., (see IP Update, Vol. 10, No. 5), the “obvious to try” test has become a hot topic for U.S. patent lawyers
UK Supreme Court steps into line with Europe, but rejects U.S. approach
- McDermott Will & Emery
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- European Union, United Kingdom, USA
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- November 30 2011
The UK’s highest court recently considered the provisions of the European Patent Convention (EPC) centering on the “susceptible of industrial application” requirement in the context of a patent describing a DNA sequence for a new protein, Neutrokine-α, which was a member of a group of similar proteins known as the TNF ligand superfamily
