After the United States Supreme Court ruling in the Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics in June of 2013, the industry scurried. The Court ruled that naturally occurring DNA is not patent eligible even if isolated, but cDNA or “complementary DNA” is because it is not naturally occurring but rather a product of the laboratory scientist…

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Update: GQ-Pat now has over 371 million sequences Back in July we reported that there were 300 million sequences in GQ-Pat, including 256 million nucleotide sequences and over 45 million protein sequences.  And these protein sequences aren’t just automated translations of nucleotides like TrEMBL. All of these sequences are in fact found in patents and patent applications…

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How to stay up to date with alerts in GenomeQuest

GQ-Pat is constantly growing. How can you keep up with newly published patent documents? Here’s a simple video that shows how to set up database alerts in GenomeQuest so that you can automatically be informed whenever new documents are published that hit to previous queries you’ve run.

Because GenomeQuest’s GQ-Pat is a document database rather than a family database, you might hit the same sequence more than once because it occurs in document A and document B both in the same family. That’s actually incredibly useful because it allows you to examine how sequences found in patents change from patent family member…

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Antibody Patent Searching Made Easy

Researchers often neglect to search antibody patents because it seems complex and due to the perception that there is nothing to be gained from it. Dangerous thinking! Antibody search, with the right tools, is in fact quite easy. And the gain is compelling: searching patents is the best way to learn about the competitive landscape…

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