| Type of Deposition |
Potential Customers |
Aim of deposition |
Confidentiality |
Eligibility for Patent application |
| Public deposition |
Eg. Researchers, who use the biomaterial for academic publications. |
Publicly available in catalogue, open rights for academic research use. |
Publicly available |
If published date was earlier than patent application date, the biomaterial will loose its patent novelty and cannot be protect by patent law. |
| Safe deposition |
Eg. Customers, who protect the biomaterials as Trade secrets. |
Biomaterials to be deposited in professional bioresouce centre, to ensure the biomaterials are not lost due to contaminations or improper preservations. |
Completely confidential |
Biomaterial will only be provided to the depositor by BCRC. Biomaterial does not meet the disclosure requirement of patent law, thus cannot obtain patent protection. |
| Deposition for Patent Application |
Patent Applicants |
Biomaterial meets the disclosure requirement of patent law. |
Publicly available after patent granted |
OK |
| Other deposition |
Eg. Customers, who need to apply for marketing approvals. |
To fulfill the requirements in regulations related to marketing approval. |
Only partially confidential |
Biomaterials only provided to certain parties by BCRC. Biomaterial does not meet the disclosure requirement of patent law, thus cannot obtain patent protection. |
