Sequencing, patenting surge

What is Behind the Recent Surge in Patenting in China?

By identifying the features of patent applications filed by 22 countries at the Chinese Patent Office from 1996 to 2003, this study finds that the main factors accounting for the recent patent boom in China can be attributed to the second revision of the Chinese patent law in 2000, the intensification of R&D expenditure both in China and the rest of the world, and the increasing foreign direct ...

Propensity to Patent, Competition and China’s Foreign Patenting Surge

What determines the decision of an inventor to seek patent protection in a foreign jurisdiction, particularly one where intellectual property rights protection is weak? This paper focuses on competition as a determinant of the patenting decision in the context of the recent foreign patenting surge in China. Using a database that comprises of all patents granted by China’s State Intellectual Pro...

Patenting of Genetic Inventions

The genetic inventions in the patent system are similar to chemical inventions. Genetic inventions that are patentable include genetic materials such as DNA, RNA, cDNA, EST’s (Expressed Sequence Tags), SNPs (Single Nucleotide Polymorphs) and recombinant vectors. These inventions need to satisfy the criteria of patentability such as novelty, nonobviousness, utility, enablement and sufficiency of...

Patenting the human genome.

Patenting computer-designed peptides.

The problem of designing new peptides that possess specific properties, such as bactericidal activity, is of wide interest. Recently, attention has focused on the use of Computer-Aided Molecular Design techniques in parallel with more traditional 'synthesise and test' methods. These techniques may typically use Genetic Algorithms to optimise molecules based on Neural Network models that predict...