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Personalized Medicine: A Patent Office Perspective

By Donald Zuhn, Kevin Noonan, Chris Singer, Sherri Oslick, and Jason Derry

By Kevin E. Noonan -- On December 3rd, the biotechnology, chemical, and pharmaceuticals (BCP) technology groups at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office held their most recent quarterly customer partnership meeting. During one of six presentations, Kathleen Bragdon, a Quality Assurance Specialist from Technology Center 1600, presented "A Look at Personalized Medicine." In prior years, this talk may have been anticipated to be a prospective look at a developing technology area, or represent the Office's attempt to open a dialog with applicants and their representatives. But these have not been normal times, and the presentation contained a few unpleasant but...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on December 12, 2008 (boomark / email).