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Patent applications for using DNA technologies to authenticate medicinal herbal material

Pang-Chui Shaw1,2 email, Ka-Lok Wong2 email, Albert Wai-Kit Chan3 email, Wai-Cheong Wong3 email and Paul Pui-Hay But2,4 email

Department of Biochemistry, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong, PR China

Institute of Chinese Medicine, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong, PR China

Law Offices of Albert Wai-Kit Chan, PLLC, Whitestone, New York 11357, USA

Department of Biology, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong, PR China

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Chinese Medicine 2009, 4:21doi:10.1186/1749-8546-4-21

Published: 24 November 2009

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Patentability of some inventions. This table lists the patent number and reasons for patentability.

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Some abandoned Chinese patent applications. This table lists the patent application number, area of work and description of the patent and possible reasons for abandoning the application.

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