Biotechnological Inventions and Patents

November 16, 2008
Intellectual Property News and Interesting Facts

In South Africa, you will not have to disclose the best way to perform an experiment regarding applications for biotechnological inventions and patents, but it is still a requirement by most foreign patent offices.

This is so to limit the number of overseas grants in biotechnological inventions and patents.

As such it is essential to provide a full disclosure of the invention, sequence, and experiment to the patent lawyers to ensure that overseas applications for biotech inventions and patents can be successful.

In addition applicants should also note that function for DNA sequences must be fully described and shown to ensure that biotechnical inventions and patents applications at foreign offices will succeed.