Innowacje i własność intelektualna · 4.10.1996

Changes Implementing Nucleotide and/or Amino Acid Sequence Listings

The Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) is proposing to amend the rules for submitting nucleic acid or amino acid sequences in computer readable form (CRF) for patent applications to simplify the requirements of the rules, to rearrange portions of the rules for better understanding and to establish consistent rules to permit a single internationally acceptable computer readable form. The Sequence Listing will be presented in an international, language neutral format using numeric identifiers rather than the current subject headings and the paper Sequence Listing will be a separately numbered section of the patent application. Sequences which contain fewer than four (4) specifically identified nucleotides or amino acids will no longer be required to be submitted in computer readable form.