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In the drug discovery marketplace, protein arrays are receiving much attention. They provide researchers with the ability to catalog and analyze thousands of proteins at once, measure their expression levels with high levels of sensitivity all together, and provide functional information such as protein-protein interactions, functional significance of protein(s) in various physiological situations as well as in various disease states. In short, protein arrays can be thought of as revolutionizing many aspects of structural and functional proteomics in much the same way as DNA microarrays have done so in the nucleic acid field.

The protein array market is undergoing a major reformation - moving from pure technology developers to more product-focused companies that are highly revenue driven. This is a natural evolution as new paradigms are initially introduced and undergo maturation in the marketplace. Diverse market drivers are moving the industry forward creating new and sophisticated high value opportunities in the protein array market place. This report will allow you to assess the market potential and opportunity gaps for high density arrays, primarily used for proteome wide analysis, verses low density arrays used principally for protein marker analysis.

D&MD's Protein Arrays Market Analysis Report provides a thorough review of this promising industry. This Report will help you:

• Discover growing market opportunities ovia a demand-side (bottom-up) market model within different target segments.
• Recognize future growth areas through market models that describe the qualitative as well as quantitative analysis of this industry, the growth drivers, and emerging trends.
• Navigate the intellectual property landscape tvia extensive legal descriptions and concrete advice for protecting your intellectual property.
• Perform competitive benchmarking through a comprehensive review of the emerging technologies extensive company profiles including reviews of their technologies, business strategies, partnering activities, and more
• Gain reliable and thought provoking insights into the market with thorough interviews with key industry experts.

Table of Contents

Section Summary

1 Executive Summary

• Drivers for protein arrays in life sciences research and drug discovery space
• The competitive landscape: Companies falling into different sectors based on types of offering to the marketplace
• Evolution of the competitive landscape
• Quo Vadis-Where is the field heading

2 Current Protein Arrays

• Advantages as a proteomics method
• Limitations of Protein Arrays
• Binding issues
• Interfacing arrays with Mass Spectrometry

3 Potential for Antibody Microarrays

• Large-scale Protein Profiling
• Array Formats
• Array Production
• Discovery and Diagnostics Applications

4 The Commercial Opportunity for Protein Arrays

• Market drivers for protein arrays
• Qualitative market opportunity for protein arrays
• Quantitative market opportunity for protein arrays: Construction of market models describing the potential
• Strategic trends and competitive landscape for protein arrays

5 Legal Aspects of Commercialization of Protein Arrays

• Protein Arrays: Where content can still be king
• Types of IP in the protein array space
• IP as a business tool
• Patenting assays, assayable molecules, and related inventions
• Subject matter: What can be claimed?
• Usefulness: Proving the molecule has a function
• Changes in the utility examination guidelines
• Meeting the new utility test: Characterizing receptor function
• Novelty and non-obviousness: Searching for that prior art
• Two more: Adequate written descriptions and enablement
• Forging an IP-savvy business model, crafting IP savvy operations
• Managing the tradeoffs
• Tradeoff 1: Patenting early vs. patenting strong
• Tradeoff 2: Patent strength vs. patent cost
• Tradeoff 3: Litigation and licensing vs. the core business
• Setting up IP-savvy operations
• Social consequences and the future of IP law

6 Protein Arrays: Technologies, Products, What's Hot in the Marketplace

• Who's in the market today?
• Technology trends: How do protein arrays work?
• Key technologies/product offerings in the protein arrays space
• Interviews with key industry participants

7 Company Profiles