The patentability of medicinal inventions related to personalized medicine in Japan.
Several amendments of the examination guidelines for medicinal inventions may be good news for pharmaceutical companies.
Shimbo
Itsuki
I
Research Priority Committee, RIKEN, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako-shi, Saitama, 351-0198, Japan. shimbo@riken.jp
Cobden
Andrew
A
Sumikura
Koichi
K
D001709:Biotechnology; D005818:Genetic Engineering / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence* / Q000379:methods; D018973:Intellectual Property; D007564:Japan; D007880:Legislation, Drug; D008511:Medicine; D010330:Patents as Topic; D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations; D011110:Polymorphism, Genetic
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