Bioinformatics Innovation & Intellectual Property Rights

Bioinformatics is an ever-growing field due to the availability of vast database systems and increasing biological data. This rapid development deals with research and development activities and requires adequate protection in the form of Intellectual Property Rights(IPR) as it adds value to the discoveries and provides incentives to the investors. The study includes the role of IPR in bioinformatics with a major focus on patents and related laws. The paper will also analyze, what type of bioinformatics are patentable, how does patent protect bioinformatics innovations specifically software which analyses DNA sequences. The paper will be presented in four parts namely, part one will consist of the introduction, while the part two will focus on what is bioinformatics and how it is related to IPR, part three will focus on the patent eligibility criteria for bioinformatics and lastly, part four will present a conclusion.