Areas of Academic Interest:
-EU and international regulations governing medicinal products;
-European law and industrial strategies to fight counterfeiting;
-International treaties and agreements on the legal protection of pharmaceutical and biotechnological inventions (Trips, EPC, WIPO, etc.);
-Evergreening strategies for pharmaceutical patents;
-EU first-to-file and US inventor-first-to-file;
-Period of grace, or lack of it, in delays in scientific publication;
-Stem cell patentability according to the Enlarged Board of Appeal (EPO) – access to the European Court of Justice (case law);
-Patentability CRISPR DNA-editing system;
-Patentability antibody therapeutic use;
-Know-how and trade secrets protection;
-Patentability of new plants obtained with essentially biological methods.
