Patent strategies in the antisense oligonucleotide based therapeutic approach

Abstract
Antisense oligonucleotides represent a new approach to therapeuric treatment of a variety of diseases.Due to unique aspects of this new approach, the opportunity to protect inventions via patenting is potentially greater than for small molecule pharmaceutical products.Strategies for protecting antisense technology include developing a multiple layered patent portfolio covering a range of compositions of matter having improved pharmacological properties.Such patentable new compositions of matter arise from exploitation of pharmacological properties discobered in preclinical and clinical trials, and from new synthetic and manufacturing processes, which provide new chemical entities.In addition,advances in manufacturing technology reduce the cost of antisense oligonucleotides and are independently patentable.In this article, the general strategic approach to patenting antisense technology will be presented, together with illustrative examples of the implemantation of such a strategy.For this purpose,primaril...

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