BRAZIL BIOTECHNOLOGY PATENT SEQUENCES:

A CRITICAL COMPONENT OF YOUR IP LANDSCAPE ANALYSIS

Improve the accuracy and relevance of your
patentability and freedom-to-operate reports
GenomeQuest is the industry-leading content provider
for nucleotide and protein sequence searching. As Brazil
continues its trend as a rapidly growing economy that is
heavily invested in biotechnology, GenomeQuest is
pleased to announce a highly comprehensive Brazilian
patent archive as part of its manually-curated sequence
collection available through GQ-Pat Platinum.
economy, with nearly 250 companies focused in human
health, animal health, agriculture, energy, and the
environment.4 Brazil is also a major licensing and
collaborations partner in all areas of biotechnology.
Nearly three quarters of all licensed patents in Brazil
originate from Brazilian universities and research
centers.5

Understanding your intellectual property position in

Brazil is key to the future of your business. Brazil is not YOUR BUSINESS DECISIONS DEPEND UPON
only an important growth market in pharmaceuticals, it is
second only to the United States in agricultural - leading ACCURATE INFORMATION
the world in production of soybean, sugar, and coffee.1 In
Particularly for biotechnology companies, patents
addition to its continued emphasis in biofuels production,
remain the most important tool for protecting R&D
Brazil is a major exporter of soybean and maize, making it
capabilities as well as ensuring mechanisms for value
a driving force in the global adoption of crop
capture in the marketplace. Brazil’s biotechnology
biotechnology: GM crop planting increased 21% in a
sector is highly competitive. Entities in the US are
single year from 2011 to 2012.2
responsible for over half of the biotechnology patent
filings in Brazil, with agriculture the second most
BIOTECHNOLOGY IS DRIVING ECONOMIC frequent biotechnology application area.6

GROWTH IN BRAZIL 9000

8000
Cumulative Biotech Patent Publications in Brazil

7000

Investment in biotechnology is a priority for Brazil. The 6000

National Committee for Biotechnology, established in 5000

4000
2007, and the Brazilian Industrial Biotechnology
Source: WIPO

3000

Association (ABBI) which launched last year, are 2000

1000
contributing billions of dollars from the public and 0

private sectors to foster the growth of biotechnology 1980 1990 2000 2010

industries in Brazil.3 GenomeQuest’s manually-curated collections ensure the

Biotechnology companies are expanding investments
in Brazil for R&D, manufacturing, and product sales.
Biotech now represents over half of Brazil’s biosciences
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highest accuracy needed for sensitive IP searching:
includes polynucleotide and polypeptide sequences from
sequence listings, text, tables, and figures from patent
applications.

1
PWC Report “Agribusiness in Brazil: An Overview” (2013)
2
ISAAA Global Status of Commercialized Biotech/GM Crops (2013)
3
Brazil Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação; Associação Brasileira de Biotecnologia Industria
4
BrBiotec Brasil (2011)
5
US Department of Commerce “The Biotechnology Market in Brazil” (February 2012)
6
Dias et al., “Evaluation of Brazilian Biotechnology Patent Activity from 1975 to 2010”. Recent Patents on DNA & Gene Sequences 6(2), 2012.
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Some entities file only, or first, in Brazil. Without GQ-Pat Platinum , your searches could miss important hits.
For example, this sequence is related to an important insecticidal gene (Cry1Ac):
SEQ ID Query: GGGGATCCATGGATAACAATCCGAAC

FIGURE 1
A sequence search with GQ-Pat Gold+
returns the following result:

Top Hit is a non-identical

pending US patent application

FIGURE 2
GQ-Pat Platinum reveals a perfect hit to
a Brazil patent application – a critical
piece of information in your analysis.

Top Hit is a pending Brazil

patent application, identical
sequence over 100% length of
both the query and the subject

The new Brazilian content is part of GenomeQuest’s Platinum offering. GQ-Pat Platinum is an add-on database to
GQ-Pat Gold+, and comprises documents from BRIC countries and emerging countries.

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