Academy of Intellectual Property Studies (AIPS), Mumbai is organising a one-day seminar on “drafting and prosecuting pharmaceutical patent applications in the EU and the US” on January 9 at SciTech centre, Mumbai. The focus of the seminar is on patent preparation and prosecution as well as on licensing, litigation and dispute resolution.

The seminar is organised only for the pharmaceutical professionals on how the drafting and prosecuting pharmaceutical patent applications is carried out. The interactive sessions will cover practically relevant issues.

The seminar will comprise a series of presentations, and will cover both general material and an interesting ‘real life’ case by working through the preparation and prosecution of US Patent No. 7,537,774 for “Therapeutic Formulation,” issued in May 26 2009.

The symposia will include brief topics including drafting of a Markush formula for a new chemical entity, drafting patent applications for enantiomers and polymorphs, added subject matter at the European Patent Office, medical use claims at the European Patent Office, claiming methods of medical treatment at the USPTO, patent term extensions, etc.

Ravi Srinivasan, fellow European Patent Attorney and British Chartered Patent Attorney, Thomas T Moga, a patent attorney and Toby Hopkin, a European Patent Attorney and British Chartered Patent Attorney will be present at the event.