Deceptive Conducts before the Patent Office Challenges for Patent Law and Competition Law

• Main Author: Hoss, Eugenio (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG 2019
• Series: Munich Intellectual Property Law Center - MIPLC
• Subjects: pharmazeutischer Patient; irreführendes Verhalten; Wettbewerbsrecht; Patentanmeldung; Patentamt; high court; Supreme Court; inequitable conduct; Competition Law; kristalline Form; Patentrecht; Apotex; Walker Process; tert-Butylaminsalz; duty of candor; Fraud before the Patent Office; Perindopril; Scheincharakter; AstraZeneca; Patent Office; Servier; LJ Jacob; patent law
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In an increasingly harmonized global patent landscape, few issues still distinguish the US patent system as much as its strict-and often criticized-duty of candor and its inequitable conduct doctrine. The EPO and most other countries around the world impose less burdensome disclosure duties upon pat...