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Ten Mistakes to Avoid when Searching Gene Sequences
Avoid the costly pitfalls of inaccurate, irrelevant, and untimely search results - what you need to consider before your next search.
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Understanding the patent landscape around biological sequences can be a very complex and time consuming process. ARYx has adopted GenomeQuest™...
Patent Infringement
Will you be ready when a competitor's activities reveal patent sequence infringement activity?
An essential element of sequence portfolio monetization is a prompt, well-informed, and aggressive response to IP infringement. Difficult access to research tools, scattered databases, and slow search service timelines get in the way of prompt filings, and slow down the pace of preparatory research.
GenomeQuest helps law firms and corporate legal groups defend sequence patent portfolios in numerous ways: First, GenomeQuest's automated alert service can be set up to re-run search queries whenever sequence information databases are updated. Second, the GQ-PAT database places the patent records of 69 million patent number-sequence ID pairs all in one place, enabling fast analysis of art and precedent. Third, specialized algorithms provide information about relationships between sequences in terms of patent authorities' definitions of relatedness, rather than scientific indicators of ancestral relationships between species. GenomeQuest will even find contiguous sequences and subsequences (such as 15 - 25 nucleotide lengths) of high similarity to patent portfolio sequences. And finally, GenomeQuest maintains a round-the-clock effort to keep GQ-PAT up-to-date with the latest patent sequence information from all sources -- public, proprietary, published, unpublished, electronic, and print.
Read more about how GenomeQuest helped a customer identify patent infringement and resolve IP issues.
>Case Study - Indentifying Patent Infringement with Respect to Hybridization Chip Probes