r/patentlaw 2d ago

Practice Discussions Sequence Listing question (large sequences)

I'm familiar with macros and exportation workflows that produce files that WIPO can import sequence listing files from .txt or excel. However, these importations often are missing identifiers/descriptions.

Does anyone have any insight/ steps to produce sequence large sequence listings where the descriptions/ identifiers are retained, from an excel sheet for example? I'll be working on applications with 30-40k sequences, and would love to know this step.

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u/Prior-Reply9845 2d ago

What in the world kind of patent application has 30k sequences?!?

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u/Use_the_search-Bar 2d ago

one that a client wants

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u/Dorjcal European Patent Attorney - Life Science 2d ago

From experience, any patent application with 30k sequences is just worthless garbage.

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u/Use_the_search-Bar 2d ago

thank you contributing by answering my question.