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Colleagues: I have been asked to obtain deposit information (i.e. date of deposit and sequence information specifically) for two microorganism referenced in an EP patent application as having been deposited in the Japanese depositories National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, International Patent Organism Depository a/k/a IPOD (Ibaraki Japan) with an accession number beginning with FERM BP and the Institute of Fermentation (IFO) (Osaka Japan) and do not want to contact the depositories directy at this time. I've been all over both the IPOD and IFO English langage websites, GenBank and lots of other places to no avail. Any suggestions and excuse the duplication of this query as I post it to both PIUG and the AALL PLL SIS IP Group list. Thanks in advance for any assistance you can offer.
Lucy
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Comments (1)
Sep 17, 2009
Ronald A. Rader says:
In my limited experience with patent depositories, primarily with ATCC (the prim...In my limited experience with patent depositories, primarily with ATCC (the primary U.S. depository), limited (no useful) information about patents and associated deposits is available. Most would presume that international treaty-designated patent depositories or their parent culture collections would have some basic information about their deposits publicly available. But that is not the case. Industry paranoia has apparently caused patent depositories to simply not disclose information; and from my contact with them, they did not want to be perceived or used as information sources. Keep in mind that patent depositories serve (get their $ from) patent assignees, while GenBank and other sequence databases that proactively disseminate information receive public funding.
For example, ATCC used to (now a long time ago) even publish a book, Microbes at Work or a similar title, in which it provided various lists of U.S. patents, assignees, related deposits and utility, e.g,. manufacture of xyz recombinant protein, vaccine, etc. However, in recent years, when I asked, essentially no information was available regarding patent deposit collection holdings. This even included simple lists/concordances of patent numbers and associated ATCC deposit numbers; and their being no way to search patent depository culture collection holdings. With the main German depository similarly not having any public information available when I asked and with patent depositories seemingly now standardizing their information access policies, I doubt if the Japanese depository will have much, if any, useful information available. (I presume they should be able to provide you with the deposit dates associated with a few specific patents, but doubt that they can/will provide sequence data, even if reported in patents).
This essentially leaves full patents as the only source to identify and initially obtain information about patent-associated microbiological specimen deposits. There is no way to search patent depository holdings, as far as I am aware. (Is there any linkage in sequence databases with patent depository or their parent culture collection holdings?)
I very much welcome being proven wrong. Specifically, I would like to receive patent depository/culture collection information that would allow me to better associate patent deposits and patents with specific inventions, particularly those associated with marketed biopharmaceutical products.
Thank you.
Ronald A. Rader
President / Author & Publisher, BIOPHARMA: Biopharmaceutical Products in the U.S and European Markets
Biotechnology Information Institute
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