ARTICLE | Politics, Policy & Law
Describing biotech inventions
June 22, 1998 7:00 AM UTC
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) issued interim guidelines outlining its requirements for describing a biotechnology invention.
The guidelines are intended to implement Federal Circuit Court decisions that have stipulated that a high degree of specificity is needed in the written descriptions of complex biomolecules, according to a PTO official who asked not to be named...