The cost of patent licenses needed to design a new genetic test or treatment may ultimately prevent research projects getting started, as individual components
Concerns have been expressed that gene patents might result in restricted access to research and health care. The exponential growth of patents claiming human D
A review of Gene Patents and Collaborative Licensing Models: Patent Pools, Clearinghouses, Open Source Models and Liability Regimes. The typically esoteric worl
Over the last years, the patenting of genetic tests sparked significant interest worldwide. Newspapers commented on patent cases and, quite often, portrayed pat
Few topics in the life sciences today provoke as much debate as the availability of patent protection on "genetic inventions". Some hold that protection is esse