{"id":47427,"date":"2014-09-10T07:57:59","date_gmt":"2014-09-10T07:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=9e7de26accfeb6002685326fbb108fac"},"modified":"2014-09-10T07:57:59","modified_gmt":"2014-09-10T07:57:59","slug":"news-story-changes-to-the-patents-research-exceptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=47427","title":{"rendered":"News story: Changes to the patents research exceptions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.legislation.gov.uk\/uksi\/2014\/1997\/contents\/made\">Legislative Reform (Patents) Order<\/a> was approved by Parliament in July 2014 and will come into force on 1 October 2014.  The Order clarifies that activities relating to medicinal product assessments are within scope of the experimental use exception (also known as the research exception).<\/p>\n<p>The changes will allow companies to use a patented product, when carrying out medicinal product assessments, either to provide information to the regulatory authorities or for health technology assessment.   <\/p>\n<p>The changes meet a government commitment to ensure the <abbr title=\"Intellectual Property\">IP<\/abbr> system supports the life sciences sector. <\/p>\n<h2>Changes to patent law<\/h2>\n<p>The Legislative Reform (Patents) Order introduces changes to the Patents Act which clarifies that medicinal product assessments are exempt from patent infringement by virtue of the existing research exception.<\/p>\n<h2>Supporting information<\/h2>\n<p>Further information can be found in <span class=\"attachment inline\" id=\"attachment_703071\"><br \/>\n  <a href=\"\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/attachment_data\/file\/352515\/legislative-reform-changes.pdf\">our guide<\/a><br \/>\n  (<span class=\"type\"><abbr title=\"Portable Document Format\">PDF<\/abbr><\/span>, <span class=\"file-size\">74.7KB<\/span>, <span class=\"page-length\">3 pages<\/span>)<br \/>\n<\/span> on changes to patents legislation made by the Legislative Reform (Patents) Order 2014.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guidance on changes to patent law made by the Legislative Reform (Patents) Order 2014 which will come into force on 1 October 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47427"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}