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Intellectual Property Protection for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

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Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering (IWBBIO 2015)

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Bioinformatics, and computational biology are two ever-growing fields that require careful attention to intellectual property rights (IPR) and strategies. The American patent system is currently going through the biggest reformation since the passage of Patent Act of 1952, and many changes apply directly to the field of biology that utilize computational intelligence. Basic IP definitions, recent IP developments, and advanced protection strategies are discussed in order to better understand the status quo of intellectual property (IP) specifically in the field of evolutionary computation, bioinformatics, and computational biology.

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  1. Fernandez & Associates, LLP, Alterton, California, USA

    Dennis Fernandez, Shashank Bhatia & Carina Kraatz

  2. Stanford Hospital, Stanford, California, USA

    Antonia Maninang

  3. San Diego, California, USA

    Shumpei Kobayashi

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Fernandez, D., Maninang, A., Kobayashi, S., Bhatia, S., Kraatz, C. (2015). Intellectual Property Protection for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. In: Ortuño, F., Rojas, I. (eds) Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering. IWBBIO 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9043. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16483-0_9

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