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Intellectual Property and Assessing Its Financial Value

the development of antibody-derived therapeutic molecules. The second

example concerns one US application of the >18,000 patents and/or

patent applications of the US company Genentech (currently belonging

to the Roche group), which conducts research in the areas of oncology,

immunology, neuroscience, metabolism, and infectious disease.

Making claims too broad is also not recommended, because the

patent examiner can decide that there are multiple inventions (there is

no “unity” of invention) which all need to be filed separately, or the

claims may be so broad that they encompass the prior ...