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Negotiating the maze of biotech "tool patents"

Nature Biotechnology volume 16, pages 1371–1372 (1998)Cite this article

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Circumventing existing patents may be a shortcut to getting your recombinant protein to market.

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Figure 1: To avoid linking a bacterial promoter to a foreign gene on a plasmid, the promoter and gene are cloned separately, then combined in vitro to form a DNA circle.

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Mascarenhas, D. Negotiating the maze of biotech "tool patents". Nat Biotechnol 16, 1371–1372 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1038/4357

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