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The Future of Biotechnology

By Donald Zuhn, Kevin Noonan, Chris Singer, Sherri Oslick, and Jason Derry

By Kevin E. Noonan -- Congress has the power, under Article I of the U.S. Constitution, to grant patents "to promote the progress of Science and the Useful Arts." The value of patenting to the public is disclosure ?- the raw material that drives progress is full disclosure of an invention in a patent specification that satisfies 35 U.S.C. § 112, 1st paragraph. In this way, the public will be able to practice the invention throughout its full scope once the patentee's exclusionary power has expired (a maximum term of 20 years from filing, with shorter terms for patents that...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on February 18, 2009 (boomark / email).