Intellectual Property: a powerful tool to develop biotech research.
Today biotechnology is perhaps the most important technology field because of the strong health and food implications. However, due to the nature of said technology, there is the need of a huge amount of investments to sustain the experimentation costs. Consequently, investors aim to safeguard as much as possible their investments. Intellectual Property, and in particular patents, has been demonstrated to actually constitute a powerful tool to help them. Moreover, patents represent an extremely important means to disclose biotechnology inventions. Patentable biotechnology inventions involve products as nucleotide and amino acid sequences, microorganisms, processes or methods for modifying said products, uses for the manufacture of medicaments, etc. There are several ways to protect inventions, but all follow the three main patentability requirements: novelty, inventive step and industrial application.
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D001709:Biotechnology / Q000191:economics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D018973:Intellectual Property; D007449:Investments / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D010330:Patents as Topic; D012106:Research / Q000191:economics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*