Team:CSU CHINA/Safety
Overview
Our great emphasis on safety runs through the process of experimentation and human practice. When it comes to safety, we focus on three areas: Laboratory Safety, bioethics safety and intellectual property safety. In terms of laboratory safety, we followed the relevant laws and regulations of China, and the of synthetic biology industry. In addition, we have made our own laboratory rules and were strictly abide by them. In the aspect of bioethics safety, we asked the members of the team who are specialized in law as consultants to make authoritative interpretation and thereby form a manual of ethics guideline for everyone in the team. In the aspect of intellectual property safety, we carried out the self-determination of intellectual property protection of three categories respectively, according to patent, trademark and copyrights. Besides, we made a specification GUIDELINE to guide all iGEM teams to carry out intellectual property protection in the future.
1.Laws and Regulations
In the field of safety, We are committed to complying with the relevant laws and regulations in force in the China. We have a law student as part of our team. On safety, we have more than once had a discussion and study of collective laws and regulations. We obey the law strictly and all actions are required by law. Our team has always attached great importance to laws and regulations. This is essential not only for the proper functioning of the project, but also for the development of synthetic biology as a whole.
Biological Safety Law of the People’s Republic of China
Regulations for the implementation of the Drug Administration Law of the People’s Republic of China
Regulations on the biosafety management of pathogenic microorganism laboratories
2.Lab Safety
In the field of laboratory safety, we have laid down strict rules and regulations and have been carrying them out. Before starting the experiment, every Sweet Guard member read the lab’s guidelines. In particular, the experimental group leader, led the study of the relevant provisions. Even students who don’t need to do wet work in the lab are familiar with the rules.
3.Intellectual Property
In the field of intellectual property safety, we began to pay attention to the protection of intellectual property right from the beginning of the project design. Not only have we conducted in-depth research in the field of intellectual property, but we feel privileged to make our own unique contribution to the popularization of intellectual property in the relatively new field of synthetic biology. We hope that our IP guideline will help current and future iGEM teams better protect their IP rights.
3.1 what IP rights are?
Intellectual property, also known as “Ownership of knowledge”, refers to “The owner of intellectual labor to enjoy the fruits of property rights”, generally only a limited period of time. Intellectual creations such as inventions, designs, literary and artistic works, and logos, names, and images used in commerce can be considered intellectual property owned by a person or organization. According to Professor Mark Lemley of the Stanford Law School, the term “Intellectual property”is widely used after the establishment of the World Intellectual Property Organization in 1967.
3.1.1patents
A patent is an exclusive right granted for an invention, which is a product or a process that provides, in general, a new way of doing something, or offers a new technical solution to a problem. To get a patent, technical information about the invention must be disclosed to the public in a patent application.(https://www.wipo.int/patents/en/ )
3.1.2trademarks
A trademark is a mark used to identify and distinguish the source of a good or service. Any mark that distinguishes the goods of a natural person, legal person or other organization from those of others, including words, figures, letters, numbers, three-dimensional signs, colors, combinations and sounds, as well as a combination of the above elements, can be applied for registration as a trademark.
3.1.3copyrights
Copyright is the legal ownership of the right to reproduce computer programs, literary works, musical works, photographs, games, movies, etc. . Unless transferred to another party, the copyright is usually assumed to belong to the author. Copyright only protects the expression of ideas, not the ideas themselves. Algorithms, mathematical methods, techniques, or machine designs are not protected by copyright.
3.2our solution
Intellectual property, also known as “Ownership of knowledge”, refers to “The owner of intellectual labor to enjoy the fruits of property rights”, generally only a limited period of time. Intellectual creations such as inventions, designs, literary and artistic works, and logos, names, and images used in commerce can be considered intellectual property owned by a person or organization. According to Professor Mark Lemley of the Stanford Law School, the term “Intellectual property”is widely used after the establishment of the World Intellectual Property Organization in 1967.
3.2.1guide for IP protection
Another resource we hope will help future iGEM teams to protect IP rights or inform people interested in IP protection is the guide we have created. We created a generic guide to protect your produce based on the steps we planned out for our project. Due to the nature of our project being an Innovative and practical design, we had to specialize certain steps to ensure the IP of our project is fully protected. Examples include regulate insulin secretion with glucose concentration along with blue light and miR21 inhibit the insulin secretion in a feedback way, forming a close loop
3.2.2how to use it
This guideline takes the form of a flow chart to make it easy for the IGEM team to review their position at any time. This guideline guides the right steps at this point and provides the right guidelines for the next steps. When used, make sure that the meanings of the various specialized terms in the guideline are understood in the correct way.
3.2.3guideline
Fig.1The model diagram of GIP-miR21T-GI-GAL4-4XmiR21T
3.3available databases
Derwent Innovations Index (Web of Science)
Merges patent information from Derwent World Patents Index with the patent citation information from Derwent Patent Citation Index. Users can conduct patent and citation searches of inventions in chemical, electrical, electronic, and mechanical engineering.
https://libguides.umn.edu/18955
United State Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is the federal agency for granting U.S. patents and registering trademarks.
https://www.uspto.gov/
The Lens
An open global cyber infrastructure to make the innovation system more efficient and fair, more transparent and inclusive. It serves many of the patent documents in the world as open, annotatable digital public goods that are integrated with scholarly and technical literature along with regulatory and business data.
https://www.lens.org/
Canadian Patents Database (CIPO)
CIPO's Canadian Patent Database allows you access 150 years of patent descriptions and images.
http://www.ic.gc.ca/opic-cipo/cpd/eng/introduction.html
Espacenet: European Patent Office Search
Searches through patent documents filed with the European Patent Office, along with 81 other jurisdictions.
https://worldwide.espacenet.com/
WIPo Patentscope
Searches through international patent applications along with patent documents from a large number of national patent offices.
https://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/search.jsf
Google Patent Search
Allows for full-text searching of patent grants and applications from the United States and several other major jurisdictions.
https://patents.google.com/
3.4reference
[1]安青虎. 品牌与商标(二)[J]. 工商行政管理, 2006(08):63-66.
[2]Patents - How to find resources by format - Research Guides at University of Minnesota Minneapolis (umn.edu)
[3]https://www.wipo.int/patents/en/
[4]https://searchsecurity.techtarget.com.cn/whatis/11-25126/