Intellectual property novelty

There is always an additional burden on scientists to assure that in their pursuit of novelty in creating a value for their company, they must review the vast databases of patents involved. It is for this reason that in describing the overall drug development scene, an in-depth discussion of what constitutes intellectual property, how to evaluate it, and search for new ideas is presented in a separate chapter. 

In this step, we need to identify what features of our future system are required. In the case of inventive designing, requirements related to novelty may be particularly important and they may require that our designing must lead to a patent or a class of patents, which will become the intellectual property of our company. Similarly to the previous step dealing with constraints, our analysis of requirements should result in a requirements tree showing how these requirements are interrelated. 

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