Steve Rutt, a Partner with Foley’s Nanotechnology team will lead an interactive workshop featuring leading practitioners from the Europe and Japan to discuss global patent strategy in the nanomedicine field at the Nano Drugs 2008 conference September 11-12th. The workshop will include comparative case studies of successful strategies employed on a global basis to obtain maximum patent protection in the key jurisdictions.
Additional areas to be covered in the workshop include protecting combination products that incorporate nanomaterials for targeted drug delivery; strategies for broadly claiming small particle formulations; understanding how much data is needed to support broad nanomedicine claims in the key jurisdictions of the US, Europe and Japan; major global trends impacting the scope of protection in nanomedicine inventions.