Gene-IT Licenses GenomeQuestT to Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO)

Gene-IT Licenses GenomeQuestT to Canadian Intellectual Property Office
(CIPO)

Government agency responsible for administration and processing if IP in
Canada to use GenomeQuestT as genomic sequence knowledge source for biotech
patent examiners

Worcester, Massachusetts - September 21, 2005 - In the latest of a series of
new client signings, Gene-IT, a leader in genome-scale sequence comparison
and mining software and managed services, today announced that it has signed
an agreement to license its flagship GenomeQuestT offering to the Canadian
Intellectual Property Office (CIPO). GenomeQuest is a genomic information
service and software application that provides sequence comparison solutions
for biological and patent investigators.

With CIPO's increased recognition as an international intellectual property
(IP) search authority, the organization's ability to provide
up-to-the-minute, accurate information becomes even more important.
GenomeQuest will enable CIPO's biotech examiners to participate in searching
the most recent patent records using both biological and IP-sensitive search
methods.

CIPO is a special operating agency of Industry Canada, and is the government
body responsible for the administration of the greater part of the
intellectual property system in Canada. The terms of the agreement call for
Gene-IT to provide access to GenomeQuest services for all IP examiners in
CIPO's biotech practice. GenomeQuest enables users to perform simultaneous,
large-scale genomic and proteomic sequence comparisons, and rapidly obtain a
structured presentation of the best-fit answers drawn from the most
up-to-date sources of global patent information.

Ron Ranauro, CEO of Gene-IT, said, "We are very pleased to be selected as
the IP search solution for the Canadian Intellectual Property Office. The
adoption of our offering by a growing number of issuing patent authorities
is a major endorsement of GenomeQuest. We are delighted to provide CIPO's
biotech IP examiners with its capabilities."

GenomeQuest provides automated search capability and context-sensitive views
of sequence information. The system couples sequence retrieval with sequence
comparison for inter- and cross-species comparison of up-to-date biological
and patent reference data. End-users initiate questions by retrieving
sequence records using text identifiers, gene names, patent numbers and
other keywords, and immediately cross-compare them with new information
contained in and linked to sequence alignments.

About Gene-IT
Gene-IT combines large-scale sequence comparison and mining software with
managed services so that bench scientists, investigators, lawyers, and
non-specialist users can benefit from up-to-date information available in
public, private, and patent sequence databases. Gene-IT's innovative
sequence-centric technology overcomes the limits of relational-based systems
by allowing sequence annotation data to "travel" with the sequence into all
results - whether from sequence comparison or sequence look-ups - to allow
efficient screening of results, enabling faster decision-making and improved
R&D efficiency. Gene-IT is headquartered in North America near Boston,
Massachusetts and in Europe near Paris, France. For more information, please
contact Susan Barry at 508-754-7300, or visit Gene-IT on the web at:
www.genomequest.com.

Bill Perkins
Gene-IT
508-754-7300
perkins_at_gene-it.com


Received on Thu Sep 22 2005 - 20:15:25