Table of Contents
Section Summary
1 Executive Summary
- Drivers for protein arrays in life sciences research and drug discovery space
- The competitive landscape: Companies falling into different sectors based on types of offering to the marketplace
- Evolution of the competitive landscape
- Quo Vadis-Where is the field heading
2 Current Protein Arrays
- Advantages as a proteomics method
- Limitations of Protein Arrays
- Binding issues
- Interfacing arrays with Mass Spectrometry
3 Potential for Antibody Microarrays
- Large-scale Protein Profiling
- Array Formats
- Array Production
- Discovery and Diagnostics Applications
4 The Commercial Opportunity for Protein Arrays
- Market drivers for protein arrays
- Qualitative market opportunity for protein arrays
- Quantitative market opportunity for protein arrays: Construction of market models describing the potential
- Strategic trends and competitive landscape for protein arrays
5 Legal Aspects of Commercialization of Protein Arrays
- Protein Arrays: Where content can still be king
- Types of IP in the protein array space
- IP as a business tool
- Patenting assays, assayable molecules, and related inventions
- Subject matter: What can be claimed?
- Usefulness: Proving the molecule has a function
- Changes in the utility examination guidelines
- Meeting the new utility test: Characterizing receptor function
- Novelty and non-obviousness: Searching for that prior art
- Two more: Adequate written descriptions and enablement
- Forging an IP-savvy business model, crafting IP savvy operations
- Managing the tradeoffs
- Tradeoff 1: Patenting early vs. patenting strong
- Tradeoff 2: Patent strength vs. patent cost
- Tradeoff 3: Litigation and licensing vs. the core business
- Setting up IP-savvy operations
- Social consequences and the future of IP law
6 Protein Arrays: Technologies, Products, What's Hot in the Marketplace
- Who's in the market today?
- Technology trends: How do protein arrays work?
- Key technologies/product offerings in the protein arrays space
- Interviews with key industry participants
7 Company Profiles
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