We are very happy to extend a warm welcome to Camile Semighini Grubor, PhD, our guest blogger who will be contributing her thoughts through a series of blogs based on her experience as a Patent Scientist. Patentable subject matter is defined in the 35 U.S.C. § 101 as: “any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition…
As more and more researchers and IP specialists sign up to use LifeQuest (full-text life science patent search tool), we have been receiving an increasing amount of positive feedback. This made us all feel so good that to say thanks, our team was inspired to create the LifeQuest Search Bar, a free tool that lets…
We are very happy to extend a warm welcome to Stephen Adams, our guest blogger. Stephen is the Managing Director at Magister Ltd., an independent consultancy which provides a range of services to the scientific and technical information community, concentrating in the field of patents documentation. For more on Stephen, please see below. Background The national referendum in…
We welcome back guest blogger and thought leader Professor Chris Holman at the University of Missouri-Kansas City Law School for a new two part series. Professor Holman authors the well-known Holman’s Biotech IP Blog and is the executive editor of Biotechnology Law Report.
When you work with DNA or protein sequences, inevitably, you’re going to run into the challenge of finding similar biological sequences that have been listed in patents. In most cases, you’re likely to know specific mutations at specific positions that you want to search for. The challenge is, how do you define a query that…
Where does your team find inspiration for new ideas, projects, and opportunities? Journals, publications, conferences, and other research are common answers, but if that’s where your sources end, you’re missing one incredibly productive source – patents.
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…
Our post on the top reasons why scientists should be searching patents was so popular, we’ve put together an infographic of the top seven reasons why patents simply can’t be ignored. It’s a whole new year, so if you or someone on your team is still on the fence about whether to include or expand…
What to Look for in US public PAIR Like most people that work with patents, I have always understood that USPTO’s Patent Application Information Retrieval (public PAIR) is the USPTO’s way of sharing information on where a patent application is in its lifecycle. It is a critically important resource because it provides the most up-to-date…
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…