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BioHouston Census Results

September 30, 2008

Unfortunately for BioHouston, they hosted their annual luncheon the day before Hurricane Ike blew into town. Attendance was clearly down, so I wanted to highlight some of the positive metrics they reported on the life sciences industry in Houston:

17 new life science companies were started in Houston during 2007. That’s a 13% increase over 2006.
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John F. Duffy of Patent Law Blog has an interesting post explaining the ramifications of a recent ruling by the USPTO’s Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences. Basically, the USPTO has been arguing for tighter restrictions on the patentability of process inventions. They claim that processes are unpatentable unless they “result in a physical transformation [...]

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