Overview
- Improves the understanding of patent issues
- Written by internationally active experts
- Provides a clear overview of the basics of patent management and strategies
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Biotech Patents (BRIEFSBIOTECH)
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About this book
Patents protecting biotechnological invention are becoming ever more important. Because biotechnology has many differences with respect to other technologies, lessons learned in other fields of technology cannot simply be transferred to adopt a suitable strategy for dealing with biotechnology inventions.
In this volume, general aspects of biopatent law will be discussed. This involves questions of patentability, including ethical issues and issues of technicality, as well as questions of patent exhaustion in cases were reproducible subject matter, like cells or seeds, is protected. Moreover, active and passive patent strategies are addressed. Further, insight will be given into patent lifetime management and additional protective measures, like supplementary protection certificates and data exclusivity. Here, strategies are discussed how market exclusivity can be extended as long as possible, which is particularly important for biopharmaceutical drugs, which create high R&D costs.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Biopatent Law: Patent Strategies and Patent Management
Authors: Andreas Hübel, Thilo Schmelcher, Ulrich Storz
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Biotech Patents
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24846-7
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Ulrich Storz 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-24845-0Published: 05 January 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-24846-7Published: 05 January 2012
Series ISSN: 2192-9904
Series E-ISSN: 2192-9912
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 44
Number of Illustrations: 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Cell Biology, Pharmaceutical Sciences/Technology, Microbiology, Biochemistry, general, Biotechnology, Commercial Law