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To this point, we have considered systematically many of the controversial issues under examination worldwide in the field of biotechnology proprietary rights.1With an eye always to how living-matter creations are made, we have demonstrated that the broad range of biotechnological inventions is amenable to analysis in terms of the standards of novelty, inventive step (obviousness) and enablement that circumscribe protectable subject matter in virtually all patent legal systems.2
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© 1987 Stephen A. Bent, Richard L. Schwaab, David G. Conlin, Donald D. Jeffery
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Bent, S.A., Schwaab, R.L., Conlin, D.G., Jeffery, D.D. (1987). Rationale for an Emerging International Order. In: Intellectual Property Rights in Biotechnology Worldwide. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08009-0_8
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