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Unsettled expectations: how recent patent decisions affect biotech

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A look back shows that broad patents are a thing of the past and biotech inventors face heightened requirements for patentability.

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  1. Christopher T. Scott is at the Stanford University Center for Biomedical Ethics, Stanford, California, USA.

  2. cscott@stanford.edu

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  1. Brenda M. Simon is at the Thomas Jefferson School of Law, San Diego, California, USA, and is a non-resident fellow at the Stanford University Center for Law and the Biosciences, Stanford, California, USA;,

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Simon, B., Scott, C. Unsettled expectations: how recent patent decisions affect biotech. Nat Biotechnol 29, 229–230 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.1795

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