Abstract
Whether or not you agree with patent protection for Agrobacterium-mediated transformation technology or for other basic platform technologies, the times, they are a-changing. In the United States, patents are awarded for many types of biotechnology inventions, including nucleic acid sequences, bacterium containing a vector construct, transgenic plants and methods of making transgenic plants. Both companies and non-profit institutes are affected by such patents. Here, some of the impacts of patents are discussed followed by a mini-primer on key points about patents and patent documents. In the final section, we present a patent landscape of Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of plants and discuss a number of key patents impacting research and development.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Agrobacterium |
| Subtitle of host publication | From Biology to Biotechnology |
| Publisher | Springer |
| Pages | 699-735 |
| Number of pages | 37 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780387722894 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2008 |