New developments in biotechnology: Requirements for deposit of microorganisms, plants, and animals and the role of the independent depository Page: 2
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and is listed in U. S. Patent 2,482.055 (for the
production of aureomycin) which issued Septem.er 13,
1949.
These two historic deposits for patent purposes
(apparently the first in the world) were forerunners to
the current requirement that patent applications for
inventions involving microorganisms, plasmids, vectors,
cells, plant tissues, seeds and other similar types of
material, which are newly isolated, novel, man made. or
not generally available t: the public: n a long-term
basis, be supported by a deposit in a recognized public
patent depository.
Depositories
A culture depository accepts, maintains and
distributes cultures of microorganisms and/or viruses,
cells or other genetic-type material. A depository can
e public, ,vernment. profit or nonprfit.
is the preservation and distribution of reference
cultures which serve as standards for users in the
scientific and educational communities.
A culture collection also must improve the strains
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Bobbie A. Brandon. New developments in biotechnology: Requirements for deposit of microorganisms, plants, and animals and the role of the independent depository, report, December 1987; (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc97423/m1/4/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.