"SPC Law and Practice 2015: All you need to know": PowerPoints now available

With apologies for the slight delay, The SPC Blog can now proudly give you the original (or ever so slightly tweaked) PowerPoint presentations attached to last week's seminar.

• Case Law Update - Hugh Goodfellow
  
• Pharmaq v Intervet International – 9 April 15 EFTA Court judgment re scope of protection of SPC for biologics - Patricia Cappuyns
  
• Concept of unitary SPCs - Bettina Wanner & Steven Ward
  
• Practice and Practically: Assessments from the national offices - Céline Magou-Santiano, Dolores Cassidy, Dr Oliver Werner, Martijn de Lange & Patrick Purcell
  
• SPCs - Advanced manufacturing waiver – Dr Gareth Morgan

We're trying to sort out the videos and will get back to you soon. Hang on in there!

"SPC Law and Practice 2015: All you need to know": now open for registration

Anyone working with SPCs must have
a very special sort of understanding ...

This year's seminar run by The SPC Blog, "SPC Law and Practice 2015: All you need to know", is now open for registration. To remind you, the date of the seminar is Tuesday 10 November 2015 and the venue has again been kindly provided by Olswang LLP in its London office, in the historical Holborn area.

We offer our apologies for the fact that we have not been able to reply to all emails already sent to us regarding the seminar -– we have had a large number requesting a place before this formal invitation. We promise to reply as soon as possible confirming places.

Details of the programme can be accessed by clicking here. To register, please email Natalie Whiteford at natalie.whiteford@olswang.com

We will try to accommodate all comers, but if demand for places outstrips the supply it may be necessary to limit the number of people attending per law firm in order to give as many firms as possible a chance of attending.  Preference will be given to anyone from industry, since they are kind enough to provide the patents, the SPCs, the litigation and the competitive edge that makes the whole seminar possible.

SPC Blog Seminar 2015: mark your diaries, give us your suggestions

The SPC Blog is pleased to confirm that its next seminar takes place on the afternoon of Tuesday 10 November. Once again we'd like to thank the London office of Olswang LLP for letting us have the use of its lovely facilities on the top floor of 90 High Holborn,

We have already secured the participation of Examiners from the United Kingdom, Ireland and the Netherlands -- and we're hoping to add another couple of countries to that list.  The programme is however still flexible at this stage so, if there are any pressing topics that you'd like to see covered, whether formally as a programme topic or as part of a discussion session, do please email Rob Stephen at Robert.Stephen@olswang.com and let him know.