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Your research and development team has just shouted "Eureka!" after long and expensive years of research, exclaiming they have developed a next-generation pain reliever. What do you do next? This article explores and suggests your next steps and identifies pertinent questions to ask a patent attorney. The focus is on intellectual property; this article does not address the myriad regulatory issues that must be resolved.

The Initial Question: Do we have an invention?

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Patents o­n genes and proteins might be severely – even retroactively – affected and lose significant value if the Supreme Court upholds the Appeals Court ruling in the Festo case. Applicants seeking patents may be required to make and test thousands of functional variants and describe them all in patent specifications to claim them. The Supreme Court decision is anticipated this summer.

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With some planning, you can use intellectual property laws to adequately protect the wealth of data stored in your databases. Those valuable data may not be copyrightable, but the software used to store them is.

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Commercial embodiments of genetically modified inventions are protected in Canada.

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Your patent portfolio does not make money sitting in a file cabinet. Extracting its value requires both market surveillance and an effective litigation or licensing strategy.

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