POLAND TRENDS AND DEVELOPMENTS Contributed by: Krystyna Szczepanowska-Kozłowska, Marcin Ziarkowski, Krzysztof Popławski and Kacper Sobolewski, A&O Shearman, A. Pedzich Sp. k.
identical or very similar to an earlier one, the UPRP could recognise a lack of novelty. In light of the above, the court’s new approach results in the non-examination of unpublished previous patent applications when assessing the inventive step of the disclosed invention, which may be convenient for pharmaceutical companies conducting research on improving their inventions.
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