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To guarantee full
disclosure of an invention involving microorganisms, the
Budapest Treaty provides for the deposit of
(micro)biological material with a recognised culture
collection, known as an "International Depositary
Authority (IDA)". An IDA must make the material
publicly available at the appropriate point in the
patenting procedure.
Since March 1, 1992 the
BCCM consortium has been nominated as an
"International Depositary Authority". The BCCM
collections can therefore accept bacteria, filamentous
and yeast fungi, human and animal cell lines (including
hybridomas) and genetic material (e.g. plasmids,
oncogenes, RNA) as patent deposits under the Budapest
Treaty.
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