Abstract
Research costs are very high in the biotechnology industry. A single one day experiment can cost several thousand dollars worth of labor, laboratory reagents and expendable goods, equipment use, and over head. Logically, the data derived from such research need to be concealed from corn—petitors in order to maintain the forefront status in this fast paced field. In addition, once new products are manufactured and sold, those that are substantial revenue producers for the company must be protected from slightly different, metoo products developed by competing biotechnology and healthcare firms. As we will see in this chapter, there are numerous legal methods that can be used to protect biotechnology inventions, drug formulations, instruments, scientific literature, product brand names, etc. These include patents, trademarks, and copyrights.
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Pappas, M.G. (1994). Legal Issues in Biotechnology. In: The Biotech Business Handbook. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0293-6_5
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