Guide to the Deposit of Biological Material for Patenting Purposes

NCIMB have produced a downloadable guide to the deposit of biological material for patent purposes. The patenting system was developed to stimulate innovation – offering protection in exchange for the disclosure of inventions allows other inventors to understand the latest advances and build on them to develop new technologies. For many inventions, disclosure requires a written description and drawings. In the case of inventions that are, or require the use of biological material, disclosure includes the deposit of biological material in a recognised institution. NCIMB is such an institution, and …