Nature Biotechnology 23, 1367 - 1369 (2005)
doi:10.1038/nbt1105-1367
The patentability of medicinal inventions related to personalized medicine in JapanItsuki Shimbo, Andrew Cobden
& Koichi Sumikura
Itsuki Shimbo is in the Research Priority Committee, RIKEN, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako-shi, Saitama, 351-0198, Japan, and Resarch Institute of Intellectual Property Management, Waseda University, Andrew Cobden is at Lovells, 1-4-2 Kasumigaseki, Chiyodaku, Tokyo, 100-0013, Japan and Koichi Sumikura is at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS), 7-22-1 Roppongi, Minatoku, Tokyo, 106-8677, Japan. shimbo@riken.jp
Several amendments of the examination guidelines for medicinal inventions may be good news for pharmaceutical companies.
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