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.
Legal privilege ensures that you can share sensitive information with your lawyers without fear of it being used against you in court. This protection is critical in all fields of law. In patent law, without the assurance of secrecy, the ability of a patentee or a defendant to receive candid advice would be severely diminished.…
AI presents a huge dilemma for patent attorneys. There is no doubt that AI will have a dramatic impact on the profession and the business model that many firms have relied on for decades.
The Board of Appeal in T 873/24 has decided to refer questions to the Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBA) on the application of G1/24 (claim interpretation) to the assessment of added matter.
It took a global pandemic to move some patent firms away from paper files. Today, it seems that patent attorneys are finally entering modernity with the growing adoption in the industry of automation tools for patent drafting and prosecution case management. Interestingly, much of this is being sold and promoted as “AI”, despite much of…
The comments space for the last IPKat article on claim interpretation/description amendments appears to have maxed out. Sorry everyone, but maybe it’s for the best. However, fear not, we now have a new decision to restart the debate!
