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Updates to Pharmaceutical and Biotech Patent Law
Looking for authoritative resources on Intellectual Property law? You can find acclaimed, expert-authored sources on PLI Discover PLUS, which provides you with the most up-to-date content such as the recently supplemented Treatise Pharmaceutical and Biotech Patent Law. This title offers legal, scientific, and technical information to help clients obtain, defend and challenge the validity of patents.
Updated information on:
Patentable subject matter – find updated details on the Supreme Court’s decision to revisit the question of patentable subject matter in Alice Corp. Pty. V. CLS Bank International. Questions on whether or not the Court decided that the laws of nature and abstract ideas are basic tools of scientific and technological work? Go to Section 3.8 to find the answers.
Indefiniteness – in Nautilus, Inc. v. Biosig Instruments, Inc. (2014), the Supreme Court adopted “reasonable certainty” standard for measuring indefiniteness. Read up on the standard in Section 5:7.2[B].
New chemical entity exclusivity-novel combinations – read up on how the FDA reversed its previous position and has proposed that fixed-combination drugs should be eligible for new chemical entity (NCE) exclusivity if any of the active ingredients in the combination had not been previously approved. Find the details on the FDA’s new policy in Section 8:3.2[B][2].
PLI Discover PLUS – Sample Search Anti-Money Laundering
PLI Discover PLUS allows you to easily locate the documents you are looking for through its clean and user-friendly interface. Here’s a quick research topic video which illustrates how to search for documents on anti-money laundering and counterterrorism financing, specific to compliance. Make sure to check out the rest of our videos on the PLI Librarian YouTube channel!
We will continue to add instructional videos to this channel, so stay tuned for more! And if you have any suggestions on search tips videos you would like to see, please contact the PLI Library Help Desk .
New Discover PLUS Research Topic Guide – Public Performance Rights
We created this Research Topic Guide for those researchers interested in learning more about a current legal issue such as Public Performance Rights, from leading practitioners and experts.
Discover PLUS is a great place to begin your research because all of PLI’s publications are secondary sources that contain expert analyses of topics such as the Supreme Court’s recent ruling against Aereo (an online streaming video service), and how this may effect future public performance rights cases.
You can view this Research Topic Guide here, and check out our other Research Topic Guides under the Training Center tab.
PLI Discover PLUS – Highlights Search Tips
PLI Discover PLUS allows you to easily manage your documents with eReader functionality. Here’s a quick video on how to highlight text on PLUS. Make sure to check out the rest of our videos on the PLI Librarian YouTube channel!
We will continue to add instructional videos to this channel, so stay tuned for more! And if you have any suggestions on search tips videos you would like to see, please contact the PLI Library Help Desk .
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PLI Discover PLUS – My Bookshelf Video
PLI Discover PLUS allows you to easily manage your documents. Here’s a quick video on how to manage your documents and save materials to a bookshelf on PLUS. Check out the rest of our videos on the PLI Librarian YouTube channel!
We will continue to add instructional videos to this channel, so stay tuned for more! And if you have any suggestions on search tips videos you would like to see, please contact the PLI Library Help Desk .
Seeing the Value in PLI Discover PLUS
PLI Discover PLUS, our eBook library, is routinely updated to ensure that you have immediate access to the most recent industry information regarding changes in regulatino, rulings, and standard practices. With PLI Discover PLUS, the subscription value is steadily increasing with the addition of new content. Check out this one-page flyer documenting the value of PLI Discover PLUS.
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PLI Discover PLUS Featured on UNC’s Carolina Blawg!
The Carolina Blawg once again made their patrons aware of the Katherine Everett Law Library’s subscription to PLI Discover PLUS! As posted “PLI Discover Plus is a good place for students in transition-to-practice courses to find forms for agreements and pleadings. In addition, there are complete transcripts of PLI seminars and the full texts of hundreds of PLI course books and treatises.”
Do you subscribe to PLI Discover PLUS? If so, a blog post or library page is a great way to spread the word to your patrons. Contact the PLI Library Help Desk for images and information you can add to your blogs, intranet, subject guides, practice area pages, listservs, or any other way you’re reaching your patrons!
Need Materials on Jury Duty Questionnaires? PLI Discover PLUS Has What You Need!
The New York Times recently addressed the issue of jury service questions in their article “TV Habits? Medical History? Tests for Jury Duty Get Personal”. The article brings into light how jury questionnaires have become increasingly more frequent in US courts. By requesting these questionnaires, lawyers and jury consultants are able to investigate the beliefs of their jurors in regards to the case. As a result, they are able to evaluate the jury box for any bias.
Several high profile and current trials were mentioned. When researching this topic of jury questionnaire, PLI Discover PLUS can provide expert-authored, secondary source materials. PLUS provides you with access to sample jury questionnaires along with an analysis of trials like People of the State v. Kobe Bryant Jury Questionnaire. Click here for a sample search you can perform on PLUS to find these relevant documents.
Do you need any search assistance? Contact the PLI Library Relations team by email at PLI Library Help Desk