Biotechnology

Originally, the mission was to conduct a review of the documentation and search tools available in the three Offices in the area of biological sequences.  The Trilateral Offices are currently co-operating, or have in the past, on various topics within the field of biotechnology, including but not limited to:

Report on the DNA Search Exchange Study, May 2004

• Trilateral Project DR2 Report on Study on Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP)/Haplotype Databases and Search Tools for Examiners (PDF471KB)
• Trilateral Technical Conference: Study on Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP)/Haplotype Databases and Search Tools for Examiners (status report; Trilateral Project DR2) (PDF469 KB)

Examination Practice Relating to Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) and Haplotypes

• Report (PDF 39,4 KB)
• Annex 1 Comments of the EPO (PDF 27 KB)
• Annex 2 Comments of the JPO (PDF 11,7 KB)
• Annex 3 Comments of the USPTO (PDF 19,1 KB)

Protein 3-Dimensional (3-D) structure related claims

• Report (PDF 189 KB)
• Annex 1 Comments of the EPO (PDF 32 KB)
• Annex 2 Comments of the JPO (PDF 63 KB)
• Annex 3 Comments of the USPTO (PDF 88 KB)

Biotechnology Patent Practices: Reach-Through Claims November 2001

• Report    (PDF 273KB)
• Annex 1  Comments of the USPTO (PDF 168KB)
• Annex 2  Comments of the EPO (PDF 85KB)
• Annex 3  Comments of the JPO(PDF 129KB)

Mutual Understanding in Search and Examination: Nucleic Acid Molecule-related inventions whose functions are inferred based on sequence homology search

• Report (PDF 179 KB)

Patentability of DNA fragments

• Report (PDF 93 KB)
• Annex 1(PDF 16 KB)

Biotechnology Patent Practice, Project 24.1

• Report (PDF 93 KB)

The Trilateral Search Guidebook in Biotechnology

• Ver. I (PDF 216 KB)
• Ver. 2 (PDF 289 KB)