Research on Patent Protection in Biotechnology

Author: Wei Yanliang
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Publish Date: 2004-04-01
Features: Among various public policies promoting the economic development of biotechnology, the patent system plays the largest role, and countries have undergone the most institutional changes in this regard. This book preliminarily examines the institutional changes in major Western economies in this field by studying the patent protection issues of specific biotechnology topics. The main feature of this book lies in its research on a large number of legislations, bills, examination guidelines, examination examples, case law, research reports, and statistical reports, as well as a detailed introduction to many technical documents. The role of the patent system in promoting the economic development of biotechnology is the largest among various public policies. This book preliminarily examines the institutional changes in Western economies in this field by studying the patent protection issues of some specific biotechnology topics.
This book first summarizes the economic development status and future prospects of biotechnology, studies the definitions and characteristics of biotechnology and biotechnology patents, the distribution of biotechnology patents and the scope of their subjects, and describes the development of the biotechnology patent system. Subsequently, it examines some hot issues in the patent protection system for hot topics such as microorganisms and animals and plants, human cloning technology, medical methods in biotechnology, nucleic acid molecules, promoters, terminators, and the three-dimensional structure of proteins. Based on this, it proposes a dynamic governance model for biotechnology patent systems.