@article{26826,
      recid = {26826},
      author = {Hübel, Andreas, and Schmelcher, Thilo. and Storz, Ulrich,  and Hübel, Andreas,},
      title = {Biopatent law : patent strategies and patent management /},
      pages = {xii, 44 pages ;},
      note = {General issues of biotech patents. Active and passive  patent strategies. Patent lifecycle management,  supplementary protection certificates and data exclusivity  in biopharmaceutics.},
      abstract = {Patents protecting biotechnological invention become ever  more important. Because biotechnology has many differences  with respect to other technologies, lessons learned in  other fields of technology cannot simply be transferred to  adopt a suitable strategy for dealing with biotechnology  inventions. In this volume, general aspects of biopatent  law will be discussed. This involves questions of  patentability, including ethical issues and issues of  technicality, as well as questions of patent exhaustion in  cases were reproducible subject matter, like cells or  seeds, is protected. Moreover, active and passive patent  strategies are addressed. Further, insight will be given  into patent lifetime management and additional protective  measures, like supplementary protection certificates and  data exclusivity. Here, strategies are discussed how market  exclusivity can be extended as long as possible, which is  particularly important for biopharmaceutical drugs, which  create high R & D costs.},
      url = {http://tind.wipo.int/record/26826},
}