Min Son of Hanol IP & Law reports on a ruling by the Supreme Court of Korea that will make it easier to obtain polymorph patents of known chemicals in the country Patenting polymorphs of crystalline ...

Robert Millonig, Ph.D., Deepa Shiwcharan Pharm.D. Companies interested in researching, developing, and commercializing pharmaceutical compounds should be aware of not only strategies for patenting the ...

Jicheng Yang of Wanhuida Intellectual Property considers whether a notable Beijing Intellectual Property Court decision signals a change to assessing inventive step in polymorph patents in China On ...

Crystal polymorphism is critically important in the fields of pharmaceuticals and materials science. For instance, a metastable polymorph of an active pharmaceutical ingredient may benefit from ...

The court’s determination that these particular polymorph claims would have been obvious shows that with prior art examples disclosing processes that produce the subsequently claimed crystal form and ...