Under strict rules, electronic records can enter; PTO allows electronic evidence in patent interferences now, but FRE must still be followed
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The US Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) ruled in a Mar 10, 1998, Official Gazette notice on the use of electronic records as evidence in patent interferences that pursuant to 37 CFR 1,671 such records are admissible as evidence to the same extent that they are admissible under the Federal Rules of Evidence (FRE). Many scientists prefer to record their research on computers rather than in the traditional laboratory notebook, and the desire for PTO approval of electronic records comes from this fact. Authentication of a record and a basis for admissibility as either nonhearsay or an exception under hearsay are key.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 1998
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Bioinformatics may get boost from 'State Street.'(Intellectual Property)
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The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit's decision in State Street Bank & Trust Co. v. Signature Financial Group, Inc. clearing the way for the patenting of inventions involving mathematical algorithms may also set the climate for patents in the bioinformatics field. The evolution of patents and business competition in bioinformatics eventually may be similar to other that of other data-base browsers.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 1998
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Database systems evolve in a biotechnology arena; bioinformatics has sparked new methods to store info and innovative ways to protect it
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Bioinformatics, including much of the cross-disciplinary research spanning the information sciences and biotechnology, is discussed. Expression profiles, a valuable commodity for genomics companies in the business of building expression databases and which play an importants part in the pharmaceutical industry's drug-discovery process, are also discussed.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 2000
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