Introduction to Patent Law


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Over the past decade, the patent system has been used with increasing frequency to protect and cultivate the significant amount of innovation provided by today’s biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies, universities, and research institutes. Indeed, such organizations regularly call upon patent agents and attorneys to protect the fruits of their research. The extremely complex nature of this area of research often requires that such patent agents and attorneys have substantial education in the life sciences, such as Ph.Ds. or M.Ds.