PAULINE NEWMAN, Circuit Judge.
This appeal concerns the administrative rule of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) whereby an inventor in the field of microbiology is required to deposit a sample of relevant biological materials with an independent depository on or before the date the inventor files a patent application. Such deposit requirement applies only to biological materials that are not readily reproducible from their written description.<...
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