Patenting Proteomics : Patentability and Scope of Protection of Three-Dimensional Protein Structure Claims under German, European and US law

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910297048403321
• Autore: Schuster Martina
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, 2010
• ISBN: 3-8452-2144-5
• Collana: Munich Intellectual Property Law Center - MIPLC
• Soggetti: Biotechnology; Proteomics; Protein engineering
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Sommario/riassunto: The Human Genome Project revealed that the human organism contains far fewer genes than proteins. The fact that approximately 33,000 genes encode more than 200,000 thousands proteins invalidated the long-held assumption that one gene encodes a single protein. Further studies demonstrated that even small structural variations in the