Biotechnology Law & Practice

Intellectual Property

Patents, Trade Marks, Copyrights, and Trade Secrets How to
Create, Protect, Build, Optimize, and Prosecute IP Patent Strategy

Chapter 1

  • Intellectual Property
  • IP in the Economy
  • The Biotechnology Patent Landscape
  • Complications obtaining biotech patents
  • Controversy around biotech patents
  • Intellectual Property Litigation
  • What is the Difference Between Copyright,
  • Patent and Trademark?
  • Philosophy and History of Patents
  • How Are Medicines Discovered?
  • The Constitutional Underpinnings of Patent Law
  • Patent Filing Decision-Making for Innovators
  • Patent Pending Before Appearing on Shark Tank
  • Working with Prototype Builders - Intellectual Property Concerns
  • Patent Pending & Provisional Patents:
  • The Guide to Filing Your Own Application
  • Developing an App? IP Protections Can Protect Your Work

Chapter 2

  • The Basics of Copyright Law Just Enough Copyright for
  • People Who Are Not Attorneys or Intellectual Property Experts
  • Every Book Ever Written Soon to be Searchable on the Internet Thanks to Fair Use Doctrine
  • Measuring Fair Use: The Four Factors
  • Linking to Copyrighted Materials
  • How to Legally Use Images in Your Social Media Marketing
  • Content Creators and Copyright Claims
  • How YouTube is Seeking to Expand the ‘Fair Use’ Doctrine
  • The TikTok Craze: A Video Sharing App
  • Based on Copyright Infringement

Chapter 3

  • Copyright Law of the United States
  • UK copyright law: An introduction
  • The Increasing Strategic Importance of Design Patents
  • Will the Supreme Court Weigh in on the Copyright
  •  Lawsuit of the Decade?
  • Trade Secrets: What You Need to Know
  • Criminal Statute for Organized Crime Now Available to Combat Trade Secret Theft – But What is an Act of Trade Secret Theft under Civil RICO?
  • Patent Application Not Fatal To Trade Secret
  • Lessons From The Largest Patent Damages Award In History
  • Do people still have the rights to their own bodies?
  • Myriad Genetics’ Latest Attempt to Maintain
  •  Its Monopoly on Our Genes Rejected
  • Status of gene patents in Canada unresolved,
  • despite successful challenge

Chapter 4

  • CRISPR: One Patent to Rule Them All
  • Pharma Mega-Deal Promises a $1 Billion Dollar Fee
  •  for Financial and Legal Advisors
  • 9 blockbuster initial patent damages awards in the US
  • 11 Supreme Court Decisions That Have Affected
  • US Patent Laws In Past Decade
  • 14 Famous Patent Infringement Cases that changed US Patent Law
  • Abstract Ideas & Software Patent Cases
  • 5G Patents – Initiatives, Enabling Technologies,
  • and Patent Landscape
  • 77 Patent cases that can help identify USPTO Abstract ideas
  •  Patent Licensing 101: Everything You Need to Know
  • The Ultimate Patent Due Diligence Checklist for Prioritization
  • Patent Monetization 101: Different types of Monetization Explored
  • Advantages of Patent Licensing
  • 4 clever patent monetization strategies for saving millions on consultancy
  • Chasing technology 'unicorns' How to spot acquisition targets early on

Chapter 5

  • Eight Tips to Get Your Patent Approved at the EPO
  • Starting the Patent Process on a Limited Budget
  • Patent Drafting Basics:
  • Instruction Manual Detail is What You Seek
  • How to Write a Patent Application
  • Four Things C-Suite Executives Need to Know About Patents
  • Time to ‘Think PCT’: Rethink Your Global Patent
  •  Strategy to Preserve Your Seat at the Table
  • A Career in Patent Law: At the Cutting Edge of Science,
  • but Not at the Bench
  • Final thoughts
  • Patents in the News
  • Covid-19 roundup: 34 AGs call for ‘march-in’ rights on remdesivir
  • The Race for a COVID-19 Vaccine is On:
  •  Key Factors May Impact Patent Protection
  • Did Steve Jobs actually invent anything,
  • or was he just a great marketing genius in creating
  •  the Apple brand? (or did he license the tech?)
  • Forget Apple vs Samsung, an even bigger patent war has just begun
  • Department of Justice Reviewing Gilead and CDC’s HIV Patents
  • US District Court Rules Against MorphoSys’
  • Cancer Immunotherapy Patents
  • Federal Circuit Invalidates Patented Cancer Therapy
  • Invasion of the Copyright Trolls: What to Do If
  • You Have Been Sued by Strike 3 Holdings or
  • Malibu Media over Alleged BitTorrent Downloads
  • Copyright Owners’ Love/Hate Relationship
  •  With TikTok and Instagram Raises Legal Issues
  • Google Sued Under Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act
  • Want to Get Sued for Millions? There’s an App for That!
  • The Legal Risks of Digital Workplace Apps
  • From the Salon Chair to Court: L’Oréal Found Liable
  •  for Trade Secret Theft and Patent Infringement
  • How Artificial Intelligence is set to disrupt our legal framework for Intellectual Property rights The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
  •  Takes on Artificial Intelligence
  • The Digital Asset Revolution: Beyond Bitcoin
  • Digital Assets: a legal minefield
  • More Resources
  • The Global Intellectual Property Academy (GIPA)
  • The International Society for Law and the Biosciences (ISLAB)
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