SPC Blog Seminar presentations: now available online

Here, in record time thanks to the efficiency of our friends at Olswang LLP, are the video links to the seven speaker presentations from ""SPC Law and Practice: All You Need to Know", this year's SPC Blog Seminar:

Review and analysis of pending CJEU referrals and recent CJEU decisions (Dr Robert Stephen, Olswang LLP) here 

Amending and attacking SPCs (Dr Dorothea von Renesse, König Szynka Tilmann von Renesse) here 

What’s up?” from the perspective of the IPOs   

• Patrick Purcell,  UK IPO here

• Dr Oliver Werner, German Patent Office here

• Dr Martijn de Lange, Dutch Patent Office here

SPCs involving medical devices (Charlotte Teall, Forresters) here 

SPCs for biologics (Mike Snodin, ParkGrove IP) here 

The PowerPoints for the various sessions, together with the speakers' biographical details, have already been uploaded for your delectation and can be accessed here.  

The seminar's SPC Law and Practice 2014 - Q&A session can be viewed here

SPC Blog PowerPoints and biographies now available

The PowerPoints and speakers' biographical details for yesterday's seminar, "SPC Law and Practice 2014: All you need to know" are now available for your delectation. You can read them online by clicking here or download them by clicking here.

WARNING! It's a big 2.56 MB file, running to some 143 pages, so think twice before printing it in full -- particularly if your ink cartridge is coming up for replacement.

The SPC Bog seminar 2014

SPCs for fish vaccines? Or is this
the dawning of the Age of Aquarium ...?

This is just a quick note to let readers know that

• the speakers' PowerPoints and notes will all be made available on this weblog in the near future;
• the seminar has been recorded on video, which should be processed and published more swiftly than on previous occasions, on the basis that Olswang LLP (the host firm -- thanks!) has had more practice at video-recording seminars than it did when last an SPC seminar was held there.

This year a variety of topics were discussed, with a first-ever mention of the phenomenon of SPC for fish vaccines and the prospects of shoal immunity. But that's another matter and, if you want to know what was said about this and other issues, you shouldn't have long to wait.

Apart from Olswang (whose London office staff also provided the logistics and processed the refreshments), gratitude is also expressed to all of the speakers and participants for giving of their time and effort, and to the Court of Justice of the European Union for their possibly inadvertent contribution by providing so much content for us to analyse and discuss -- a contribution that shows no signs of abating.

Do please be patient: all items will be made available as soon as possible, so there's no need to chase!

SPC Blog Seminar 2014: at last, the invitation!

With a lot of effort from blog team member Rob Stephen and the kind support once again of host firm Olswang LLP, The SPC Blog is delighted -- and not a little relieved -- to announce that the programme for this year's annual seminar is now published. For full details and registration, just click here.

The seminar, held on Thursday 6 November 2014, runs from 1.30 pm until 6 pm. It will address the following topics:

• Review and analysis of pending CJEU referrals and recent CJEU decisions - Robert Stephen, Olswang LLP
• “What’s up?” from the perspective of the IPOs - Various international IPO representatives
• SPCs involving medical devices - Charlotte Teale, Forresters
• SPCs for biologics - Mike Snodin, ParkGrove IP
• Amending and attacking SPCs – Dorothea von Renesse, König Szynka Tilmann von Renesse
• ‘Quick updates’ - notification dates and more…

There will be plenty of time for questions and a drink afterwards.

Do join us once again! You are very welcome.

SPC Blog Seminar 2014: save the date!

Save the date! Thursday 6 November has now been fixed for this year's SPC Blog seminar. Following readers' suggestions we look forward to having presentations on medical device SPCs, some Intellectual Property Office input -- at least from the UK and ideally from the Netherlands too -- plus biotech SPC considerations, a general case review, and probably a few short topics.

More details, and registration instructions, will be posted as soon as possible.

The 2014 SPC Blog seminar: early announcement

As readers will know, we've not yet been able to sort out a date for this year's SPC Blog Seminar but we are aiming for late October, a rather lovely time of year to be in London, in all its autumnal splendour.  Further details will be posted as soon as available.

Meanwhile, blog team member Robert Stephen is amenable to suggestions for topics and speakers. If you have suggestions for either, can you please email Rob at Robert.Stephen@olswang.com and let him know.