INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY: B. PATENT: 3. PATENTABILITY: a) UTILITY REQUIREMENT: The 2001 PTO Utility...
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16 Berkeley Tech. L.J. 123
Year
2001
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Timothy A. Worrall, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY: B. PATENT: 3. PATENTABILITY: a) UTILITY REQUIREMENT: The 2001 PTO Utility Examination Guidelines and DNA Patents, 16 Berkeley Tech. L.J. 123 (2001).
This article applies the utility requirement to chemical compositions. The article also briefly discusses the revisions in the utility guidelines and argues that case precedent supports these guidelines. The article then applies the guidelines to DNA sequencing and DNA probes.