A 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.

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