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Despite the huge amount of published microarray data in cancer, little is being converted into clinical practice. Validating initial data is proving to be a key challenge.
What happens if someone else claims to have invented your invention? In the United States, only the first inventor has rights to patent protection of an invention. When two or more parties claim to have invented the same invention, an interference determines the actual first inventor, who will subsequently be awarded the patent rights.
