MOPOP - Chapter 17 - Table of Contents

Biotechnology
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Biotechnology

• 17.01

  Scope of this chapter
• 17.02

  Subject-matter
  • 17.02.01

    Living matter
    • 17.02.01a

      Higher and lower life forms
    • 17.02.01b

      Organs and tissues
  • 17.02.02

    Processes to produce life forms
  • 17.02.03

    Medical and surgical methods
  • 17.02.04

    Bioinformatics
• 17.03

  Utility
  • 17.03.01

    Establishing utility
  • 17.03.02

    Sound prediction
    • 17.03.02a

      Factual basis
    • 17.03.02b

      Sound line of reasoning
    • 17.03.02c

      Proper support
  • 17.03.03

    Relevant date
  • 17.03.04

    Office actions
• 17.04

  Sufficiency
  • 17.04.01

    Sequence listings
    • 17.04.01a

      Requirement for a sequence listing
    • 17.04.01b

      The PCT sequence listing standard
    • 17.04.01c

      Addition of a sequence listing to an application
    • 17.04.01d

      Amendment of a sequence listing
    • 17.04.01e

      Correction of a sequence listing
    • 17.04.01f

      Identification of a sequence listing
    • 17.04.01g

      Usage of variable symbols in a sequence listing
  • 17.04.02

    Deposits of biological material
  • 17.04.03

    Inclusion of examples
• 17.05

  Novelty
  • 17.05.01

    Biological material
  • 17.05.02

    Implicit or inherent disclosure
  • 17.05.03

    Products-by-process
• 17.06

  Ingenuity
  • 17.06.01

    Nucleic acids encoding amino acid sequences
  • 17.06.02

    Process claims
• 17.07

  Claims
  • 17.07.01

    Selections
  • 17.07.02

    Provisos
    • 17.07.02a

      Provisos and utility
    • 17.07.02b

      Provisos and unity
    • 17.07.02c

      Provisos and non-essential elements
  • 17.07.03

    Reach-through claims
  • 17.07.04

    Functional limitations
  • 17.07.05

    Scope of claims
    • 17.07.05a

      Recourse to the description
    • 17.07.05b

      Defining biomolecules by structure
    • 17.07.05c

      Defining families of biomolecules
    • 17.07.05d

      Families of hybridizing nucleic acids
    • 17.07.05e

      Nucleic and amino acid terminology
    • 17.07.05f

      Sequence alignment methods
• 17.08

  Special topics
  • 17.08.01

    Antibodies
    • 17.08.01a

      "Generic" and polyclonal antibodies
    • 17.08.01b

      Monoclonal antibodies
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  Appendix 1 Deposits of biological material
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  Appendix 2 Steps for obtaining samples of biological materials
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  Endnotes