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Nature 404, 532 (6 April 2000) | doi:10.1038/35007218

US court tests the breadth of patent protection on proteins

Meredith Wadman

Does a patent on a recombinantly produced protein give the owner rights to versions of that protein produced in other ways? This issue is being put to the test in a closely watched battle that opened in a Boston courtroom last week.