Patent Ethics
Patent Ethics

Author: David Hricik

Publisher: OUP USA

Published: 2009-09-17

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780195338355

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Patent Ethics: Prosecution serves as an essential guide to the ethical issues arising in the course of the patent prosecution process. By providing relevant rules and case law, it allows practitioners to identify ethical problems before they arise and to address them most effectively when they do. Patent Ethics: Prosecution is the first of two volumes on patent ethics-the second is on litigation-written by Professor David Hricik and Drinker Biddle partner Mercedes Meyer. This treatise is the first of its kind to combine the United State Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) rules with commentary by the authors, which distills the authors' own experience and expertise in patent prosecution into effective practice strategies.

Patent Law and Policy
Patent Law and Policy

Author: Susy Frankel

Publisher:

Published: 2014-12

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781927183830

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

"The text will outline the history and rationale behind patent law, outline major areas of patent examination, and complexities, provide economic analysis, Maori and patent issues, international trade issues, and specialist patent court and tribunal issues"--Publisher information.

Patents on Life
Patents on Life

Author: Thomas C. Berg

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2022-05-26

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781108450881

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This volume brings together a unique collection of legal, religious, ethical, and political perspectives to bear on debates concerning biotechnology patents, or 'patents on life'. The ever-increasing importance of biotechnologies has generated continual questions about how intellectual property law should treat such technologies, especially those raising ethical or social-justice concerns. Even after many years and court decisions, important contested issues remain concerning ownership of and rewards from biotechnology - from human genetic material to genetically engineered plants - and regarding the scope of moral or social-justice limitations on patents or licensing practices. This book explores a range of related issues, including questions concerning morality and patentability, biotechnology and human dignity, and what constitute fair rewards from genetic resources. It features high-level international, interfaith, and cross-disciplinary contributions from experts in law, religion, and ethics, including academics and practitioners, placing religious and secular perspectives into dialogue to examine the full implications of patenting life.

Who Owns You?
Who Owns You?

Author: David Koepsell

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2011-09-23

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 1444360655

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Who Owns You? is a comprehensive exploration of the numerous philosophical and legal problems of gene patenting. Provides the first comprehensive book-length treatment of this subject Develops arguments regarding moral realism, and provides a method of judgment that attempts to be ideologically neutral Calls for public attention and policy changes to end the practice of gene patenting

Patent Politics
Patent Politics

Author: Shobita Parthasarathy

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2017-02-21

Total Pages: 299

ISBN-13: 022643785X

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Introduction -- Defining the public interest in the US and European patent systems -- Confronting the questions of life-form patentability -- Commodification, animal dignity, and patent-system publics -- Forging new patent politics through the human embryonic stem cell debates -- Human genes, plants, and the distributive implications of patents -- Conclusion

Biopatent Law: Patent Strategies and Patent Management
Biopatent Law: Patent Strategies and Patent Management

Author: Andreas Hübel

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-01-05

Total Pages: 53

ISBN-13: 3642248454

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Patents protecting biotechnological invention are becoming ever more important. Because biotechnology has many differences with respect to other technologies, lessons learned in other fields of technology cannot simply be transferred to adopt a suitable strategy for dealing with biotechnology inventions. In this volume, general aspects of biopatent law will be discussed. This involves questions of patentability, including ethical issues and issues of technicality, as well as questions of patent exhaustion in cases were reproducible subject matter, like cells or seeds, is protected. Moreover, active and passive patent strategies are addressed. Further, insight will be given into patent lifetime management and additional protective measures, like supplementary protection certificates and data exclusivity. Here, strategies are discussed how market exclusivity can be extended as long as possible, which is particularly important for biopharmaceutical drugs, which create high R&D costs.

Biotechnology, Patents and Morality
Biotechnology, Patents and Morality

Author: Maureen O'Sullivan

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-06-19

Total Pages: 149

ISBN-13: 0429595034

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book critiques the decision-making process in Article 53(a) of the European Patent Convention. To date, such decisions have been taken at high levels of expertise without much public involvement. The book eschews traditional solutions, such as those found within legislative, judicial and patent office realms and instead develops a radical blueprint for how these decisions can be put to the public. By examining wide-scale models of participatory democracy and deliberation, this book fills a significant gap in the literature. It will be invaluable for patent lawyers, academics, practitioners and intellectual property and patent officials.

The Ethics of Patenting DNA
The Ethics of Patenting DNA

Author: Nuffield Council on Bioethics

Publisher:

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This paper questions whether the application of the patent system to DNA sequences achieves its goals of stimulating innovation for the public good and rewarding people for useful new inventions. Even if DNA sequences are considered eligible for patenting, they must also be novel, inventive, and useful. The application of these criteria has not been stringently applied. In future, patents asserting rights over DNA sequences should become the exception rather than the norm.

Embryonic Stem Cell Patents
Embryonic Stem Cell Patents

Author: Aurora Plomer

Publisher:

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780199543465

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Stem cell research, and particularly embryonic stem cell research, while offering the prospect of developing theories for serious life-threatening diseases, also raises a number of difficult and controversial moral questions. This is reflected in a variety of moral perspectives and regulatory regimes, already adopted or in the process of being developed, in EU Member States. In particular the "moral exclusion" clause in Article 6 of the EC Directive on the legal protection of biotechnological inventions has created much uncertainty in this field. This collection of original essays provides comprehensive analysis of the EU patent system as applied to biotechnological inventions and particularly stem cell research, dealing with the overlapping EPC, EU, international and national law regimes bearing on the exclusion of patents in a morally fragmented and contested field. In this multidisciplinary study, the editors aim to clarify the legal scope of Article 6, which they deem essential for the fostering of research and investment in Europe, while ensuring that such research is conducted within clear ethical limits which address the concerns of society. As well as a complete overview of the application of the European patent law in the field of human embryonic stem cells, topics covered include legal and philosophical accounts of the boards of the European Court of Justice and European Patent Offices' reasoning in the leading litigated cases, as well as the institutional tensions between national and transnational European research and patent regimes. With its broad research in the fields of patent law, ethics and philosophy, the book analyzes a wide range of issues in a way no other book has previously done and suggests solutions to unblock the current stalemate surrounding the patentability of human embryonic stem cell related inventions. The book will be welcomed by a broad readership, including experts and academics in both ethical and legal disciplines as well as policy makers and regulators in the field of embryonic stem cell research in Europe.