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Rise in Genomic Data Drives USPTO to Impose
One-Sequence Limit on Nucleotide Patents

[July 27, 2007]

By Bernadette Toner

The USPTO said that because of the “exponential” increase in genomic databases over the past decade, “it now requires significantly more computational time to run individual nucleotide sequence searches for examination purposes than in 1996, and there is significantly more pertinent prior art to consider.”

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