Biotech patents: Looking backward while moving forward

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The US Supreme Court has taken interest in pursuing the threshold issue of patent eligibility in a case called Laboratory Corporation v. Metabolite Laboratories. The US Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) and the Federal Circuit should realize that the boundaries of the patent system are in urgent need of fortification.

Legal issues & crime, HEALTH SERVICES, Legal/Government Regulation, Company legal issue, Cases, Health care industry, Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings, Patent infringement

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The challenge to patent law of pure chemical protein synthesis

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The emergence of pure chemical protein synthesis would put the patent system under serious problem as this method can be used as a commercially viable method for drug designing and production. Details on how the US patent systems are taking care of the new methods of synthesizing protein are discussed.

Science & research, Research, Protein synthesis, Protein biosynthesis

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Changing patent strategies: what will they mean for the industry?

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The impact of the decline in DNA-based patent applications on the anti-commons effect is described.

Forecasts, trends, outlooks, Drugs, Patents & copyrights, Biotechnology industry, Biotechnology industries, Forecasts and trends, Market trend/market analysis, Intellectual property

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