User's Guide to Intellectual Property in Life Sciences

Dr Paul England is the senior professional support lawyer in the Patents Group at Taylor Wessing where he specialises in UK and multi-jurisdictional patent litigation. He has a particular interest in life sciences subject matter and associated exclusivity issues, having begun his career as a scientist and taken a doctorate in biochemistry and molecular biology at the University of Oxford. Paul's work covers advice and training to the Patents Group on these areas of law as well as providing advice and value-added services to clients.Paul publishes regularly on patent law and exclusivity right developments, with over 50 papers in peer-reviewed journals, and he speaks at conferences several times a year. He is leading the Patents Group and clients on the UPC and Unitary Patent and the implications of Brexit on these and other issues in the patents and exclusivity rights area of the life sciences. Paul is the Consulting Editor of Intellectual Property in the Life Sciences (Second edition) and Patent Transactions in the Life Sciences (Globe Law and Business). He is also the author of 'Expert Privilege' in Civil Evidence (Hart Publishing). Paul is on the Editorial Board of Intellectual Property Life Sciences Review and a correspondent for Bio-Science Law Review. He is Secretary of The Academy of Experts and chairs the Lawyers Network of Linacre College, Oxford.Paul is rated by peers and clients in LMG Euromoney's Rising Stars 2017.Simon Cohen is a partner in the IP/IT group at Taylor Wessing and heads the International Patents group.

This is an immensely practical and useable book. Rather than an academic tome that sits on the shelf to be dusted off for obscure points of law, this book has been at my elbow, as something to reach for most days since it arrived from Bloomsbury.

• Introduction Part I Patents in the Life Sciences: Validity and Enforcement Chapter 1 Requirements for a Valid Patent 1: Novelty Chapter 2 Requirements for a Valid Patent 2: Inventive Step Chapter 3 Requirements for a Valid Patent 3: Patentable Subject Matter and Exclusions Chapter 4 Requirements for a Valid Patent 4: Sufficiency Chapter 5 Patent Infringement 1: Scope of Protection of Claims Chapter 6 Patent Infringement 2: Acts of Infringement Chapter 7 Patent Infringement 3: Defences Chapter 8 Patent Infringement 4: Remedies Part II Patent Ownership, Dealings and Litigation Chapter 9 The European Patent System and Obtaining a Patent Chapter 10 Rights in a Patent Chapter 11 Patent Dealings Chapter 12 Patent Proceedings in the Courts of England and Wales Chapter 13 Amendment and Parallel Proceedings in the EPO and the English Courts Chapter 14 Terminating Patent Agreements and Points of Dispute PART III Other Rights Protecting Life Sciences Subject Matter Chapter 15 Supplementary Protection Certificates Chapter 16 Data and Market Exclusivity Rights Chapter 17 Trade Secrets Chapter 18 Plants and Genetic Resources Chapter 19 Trade Marks, Passing Off, Designs and Copyright Chapter 20 Exhaustion of Rights, IP Offences and Customs Powers Chapter 21 Personal Data – GDPR Rights and Obligations Coda Brexit Appendices Appendix A Patents Act 1977 Appendix B Trade Secrets (Enforcement, etc.) Regulations 2018 Appendix C Intellectual Property (Enforcement, etc.) Regulations 2006 Appendix D Regulation (EC) No 469/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 May 2009 concerning the supplementary protection certificate for medicinal products Appendix E Regulation (EC) No 1901/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 December 2006 on medicinal products for paediatric use Appendix F Regulation (EC) No 141/2000 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 1999 on orphan medicinal products Appendix G European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018