PRESENTATION PLAN

Presentation Plan

Presentation Plan

Thesis statement

The purpose of this paper is to present a meeting presentation plan. This plan would help the board of directors to accept the request for the patent of the original plant discovered. This patent would help protect the tights and formula of the company. The plant helps cure cancer cells. As a bio-medical company, this patent is very important.

Introduction

Our patent agent has drafted the following claims and specification. We are the business director of a small start-up biotech that was started by a scientist from another company with expertise in natural products. We have venture capital, but high costs in labor, facilities and supplies. Since the FDA is now looking at natural products as a class of therapeutics for possible approval, our company appears well-positioned in the market. Our company has found that a crude extract of the poisonous plant Fearus tortoisia, (found only on a small patch of woods on the University of Maryland College Park campus) has some anticancer activity in rodent cells, particularly in one prostate cancer cell line. We have not had time to cross check other cell lines, nor to test in human cells. Our preliminary studies identified a receptor for what appears to be the active ingredient, and we have isolated a compound from the plant, but have not purified the compound completely. We want to apply for a patent as early as possible (Chapman, 2009).

Analysis of the situation

In the specification of the patent application, it is disclosed that in vitro culture data is showing that the compound derived from Fearus tortoise has a higher toxicity in prostate cancer cells than healthy control cells. The company has also disclosed in a figure, some toxicity in a control batch of kidney cells taken from an individual with a non-cancerous kidney lesion. All cells which used were mouse in origin, but they are widely known to be somewhat predicative of human disease. Also, we have identified a protein on the surface of human neurons, kidney cells, prostate cells and fibroblasts which appear to be a receptor to which the compound binds and is taken into the cells. We have also disclosed the structure of a compound from a crude extract, to be a multi-ringed structure that closely resembles the pattern on the shell of the University of Maryland Terrapin, Testudo (Planning a Presentation, 2008).

We claim:

A compound derived from the plant Fearus tortoisiae.

The compound ...