Abstract:The world is experiencing explosive technological progress in biotechnology, leading to unprecedented benefits such as improved or new medicines, treatments, and processes with the potential to transform and save human lives. However, as novel technological frontiers are crossed, there have been increased concerns about how biotechnology inventions are granted or refused exclusive patent protection. Besides meeting patentability requirements, various countries consider most biotechnology inventions contrary to… Show more
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