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Biotechnology patent applications in Europe

Nature Biotechnology volume 17, pages 83–85 (1999)Cite this article

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A look at the differences between French, British, and German patent application trends.

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  1. The year 1996 was left out of the calculation of the absolute number of patents in the first section of the table. In Europe, a patent is published only 18 months after its deposit. The database was built in January 1998, and therefore was incomplete for the year 1996. However, 1996 figures were counted in the other calculations in order to estimate the most recent trends in patent applications.

  2. Data on publications was extracted from the same database.

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The authors would like to thank Pierre-Benoît Joly, Lionel Nesta (INRA/SERD), Jackie Senker, Paul Martin (SPRU), Thomas Reiss (FhG ISI), and Bernd Bettel (OEB) for helpful comments and collaborations.

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  1. the National Institute of Agronomic Research, Sociology and Economics of Research and Development Unit, Pierre Mendès University, BP 47, Grenoble Cedex 9, 38040, France

    Marie Angele de Looze & Shyama V. Ramani

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de Looze, M., Ramani, S. Biotechnology patent applications in Europe . Nat Biotechnol 17, 83–85 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1038/5263

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