Patents for Chemicals, Pharmaceuticals, and Biotechnology

Philip Grubb is formerly Intellectual Property Counsel of Novartis International AG, and Adjunct Professor of the Franklin Pierce Law Center, Concord, NH (2007-8). Peter R. Thomsen is a Swiss and European Patent Attorney and a CEIPI (University of Strasbourg) tutor. He was elected into the Council of the Institute of Professional Representatives before the European Patent Office (epi) for the period 2011-2014 and is currently working as Global Head IP-Policy and Senior Manager IP-Litigation at Novartis International AG. Tom Hoxie is a Patent Attorney with over 25 years of experience in intellectual property law, and founder of his own law firm, Hoxie & Associates LLC. He has given numerous seminars on patent law to patent attorneys in the United States and Europe and was a tutor in European patent law for the Centre d'Etudes Internationales de la Propriété Industrielle (CEIPI) at the Université de Strasbourg.Gordon Wright is a Consultant and UK and European Patent Attorney at Elkington & Fife LLP. He has nearly 30 years experience in patents, the greater part of which was spent in-house in the pharmaceutical industry.

• PART I: INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND TO THE MODERN PATENT SYSTEM; PART II: PATENT LAW AND PROCEDURE; PART III: PATENTABILITY OF INVENTIONS IN SPECIFIC TECHNICAL FIELDS; PART IV: PATENTING IN PRACTICE; PART V: COMMERCIAL EXPLOITATION OF PATENTS

This reviewer agrees with the advertising blurb which states that the book 'will be particularly useful for trainees and new entrants to the patent profession'. It provides a helpful entrée to the field of patenting.