Patent

Gene Patent Michael Crichton in “Patenting Life” and John E. Calfee in “Decoding the Use of Gene Patent” discuss gene patent. Both agree that gene patent is overpriced, and research companies shouldn’t have the right to own patient’s tissues, but they disagree about the harmful of gene patents. Crichton and Calfee agree that the testing for different types of diseases are expensive. They also agree that no other companies are allowed to test because patent holders block any competitor's test.…

Philosophical ethical approaches to medicine have proved to be important in the use of patents in medicine. First, by applying a utilitarian approach to medicine and health care, patents become inherently beneficial to all. To improve the utility and quality of life for all beings is the grand strategy in society. This approach doesn't account much into the individual aspects of patents, but instead focuses on helping society overall. To improve the utility of society as a whole is more…

year, the U.S. Supreme Court took up the topic of creativity in the context of patent law. The case, Mayo Collaborative Services v. Prometheus Laboratories, Inc., revisited a long-observed legal prohibition on patenting the "laws of nature" and illustrates one of the many ways in which law, particularly intellectual property law, can be informed and shaped by psychological principles. At issue in Mayo was a series of patents issued to Prometheus Labs regarding the treatment of autoimmune…

This week’s current event that I have read is about Boston based Gillette suing Edgewell in federal court, alleging Edgewell's Hydro Connect 5 and Hydro Connect 5 Sensitive razor refill blades infringe on a Gillette patent for its Fusion razor. Gillette, which is owned by Cincinnati-based Procter & Gamble, filed the lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut, where Edgewell's Schick Manufacturing is based.Ofcourse you might be saying who is Gillette or even then Edgewell;…

ensures creation but also its use. In order to receive the priority for the patent in the old process, the inventor not only had to have the idea, but he or she also had to be able to provide a prototype. This ensures that the patents would not be left without creation. The idea of first to invent is promoted in the Constitution, granting Congress the exclusive rights and power, as mentioned before, the right to a patent to inventors. The disadvantages to the first to invent procedure is that it…

placed New Zeland to the Top Ten of the countries in Biotechnological innovation at the international arena of biotechnology. One of the most important basis of biotechnology industry is of course the gene patents. Mostly human gene patents. About 20% of human genes has been patented. Gene patents can be catagorised into four basic groups, to their uses. 1) Producing therapeutic proteins. This is basicly used to use a certain DNA or mRNA code to a certain protein to create and produce…

Case is a case involving the application of a patent filed in 1972 by Dr Chakrabarty (Plaintiff) , a microbiologist. He sought to patent after artificially creating a bacterium which could degrade crude oil , breaking it down to multiple components. The patent filed by Chakrabarty was under Title 35 U.S.C Section 101. It was a patent for people who discovered or created products or composition of matter that is useful. In other words, it was a patent about an oil-eating bacterium which…

issues with the patenting and proof of legitimacy of their flying method. These issues escalated into a full blown patent war between the brothers and other inventors in the field. The brothers from Indiana went on to delay American aeroplane progress for years. After their historic…

Trademarks, copyrights, patents, etc are the instruments of intellectual property right which are considered to achieve economic, social and technological advancements for the country. Patent is one of the instruments which is mostly debated for its role under pharmaceutical industry. The debate started when India signed General agreement for trade and tariff in 1994 wherein it agreed to implement all the flexibilities of TRIPS within a given time period. India faced challenges while implication…

The fact of this case is the Association for Molecular Pathology along with several other medical associations, doctors and patients sued the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and Myriad Genetics to challenge several patents related to human genetics. Myriad Genetics, Inc. is a genomic research firm whose mission, among other things, is to learn what various sequences of DNA in the human genome actually do. In 1994, Myriad’s scientists made an extraordinarily useful discovery…