XII Biotechnology Forum OpenBio-2025

Natalia Nikolaeva, Partner, Regional Director (Gorodissky & Partners, Novosibirsk) and Alexey Zhurov, Russian and Eurasian Patent Attorney (Gorodissky & Partners, Moscow) will hold a round table discussion ‘Legal Protection of Inventions for Secondary Medical Use: From Patenting to Protection’ as part of the XII Biotechnology Forum OpenBio-2025, which will be held in the science city of Koltsovo (Novosibirsk).

The main topics of the round table discussion will be:

• Requirements and approaches to patenting inventions for secondary medical use: global practice
• Features of the procedure for extending patents for inventions involving the use of a known substance for a new pharmaceutical purpose
• Difficulties in protecting patent rights