In a remarkable departure from what we might have expected it to do following Amgen v Sanofi, the US Court of Appeals of the Federal Circuit in Teva v Eli Lilly upheld a jury verdict finding that a method of treatment claim for a broad genus of antibody satisfied both the written description and enablement…
It is difficult to find a field of patent law in pharma and biotech at the moment that is more complicated and fast-moving than the field of lipid nanoparticles (LNPs). IP strategy for LNPs involves sophisticated science, multiple and overlapping technology platforms, trade secret and ownership disputes and global patent cross-litigation.
We are delighted to welcome Alice Walford to the Evolve team.
Alice joins us with over 15 years of combined private practice and in-house experience in the life sciences sector. Alice brings a wealth of experience, including time at Novartis, Gyroscope Therapeutics and Abzena, working on gene therapies, small molecule and antibody assets. Her specialist…
Patenting medical devices in Europe is challenging. First, there is the problem that medical use claims are not permitted for medical devices, whilst simultaneously methods of treatment or surgery using a device are excluded from patentability.
On 22 June 2026, China’s National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) approved satricabtagene autoleucel, or satri-cel, making it the world’s first CAR-T cell therapy cleared for a solid tumour. Developed by Shanghai-based CARsgen Therapeutics, the therapy is approved in China for patients with Claudin18.2-positive, HER2-negative advanced gastric and gastro-oesophageal junction (GEJ) cancer who have already failed…
As the recent furore over claim interpretation and description amendments illustrates, patent attorneys love nothing more than to argue about the meaning of words. As we know, words are contextual things, and can shift their meaning depending on the words around them and the perspective of the reader. Definitions are particularly unstable in biological sciences,…
Many in the IP profession remain considerably sceptical of AI. AI may be useful for checking for typos and simple calculations of deadlines, but it cannot replace in-depth human reasoning about complex scientific and legal issues. However, the data suggests something different.
Popper is Evolve’s proprietary AI tool, built by our own pharma patent attorneys to navigate the complex intersection of life sciences, global patent law, and commercial strategy.
Biotechnology patents often rely on defining protein and nucleic acid features by their sequence identity. However, it is often not necessary to define the exact sequence, but instead to define the sequence according to a limit of sequence identity, e.g. a sequence having a 90% sequence identity to a specified sequence.
Patenting stem cell therapies in the US is a difficult business, especially if your cell therapy product is defined solely by natural surface cell markers and lacks any form of genetic modification.
At the last count, there were more than seventy companies offering AI-assisted IP software solutions. Most of these companies are less than two years old.
