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3 Cybaris Intell. Prop. L. Rev. 1 (2012)

handle is hein.journals/cybaris3 and id is 1 raw text is: USEFULNESS VARIES BY COUNTRY: THE UTILITY REQUIREMENT OF PATENT LAW IN THE UNITED STATES, EUROPE AND CANADA* Jay A. Erstling,t Amy M. Salmela,l and Justin N. Woott I. INTRODUCTION .............................................................................................. 2 II. AN OVERVIEW OF UTILITY IN THE UNITED STATES, EUROPE & CANADA ........ 5 A . U nited States ....................................................................................... 5 B . E urop e ................................................................................................ 10 C . C anada ................................................................................................ 13 III. TREATIES AND OTHER INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS ................................ 19 A . Paris Convention . .............................................................................. 19 B . P C T. ................................................................................................... 20 C . P L T .................................................................................................... 23 D. TRIPS and NAFTA ............................................................................ 24 IV. AN INTERJURISDICTIONAL CASE STUDY ..................................................... 25 V. PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS OF CANADA'S DOCTRINE OF SOUND PREDICTION ........................................................................................................ 28 * Patterson Thuente Christensen Pedersen, P.A. (Patterson) represents clients in the pharmaceutical industry, including Eli Lilly & Co., which requested that the firm undertake an independent study of patentable utility requirements. This article is a result of that study. T Jay Erstling is a Professor of Law at William Mitchell College of Law and Of Counsel at Patterson, and is a former Director of the Office of the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) and Director-Advisor to the Director-General of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). I Amy Salmela is a partner with Patterson. TT Justin Woo is an associate with Patterson.

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