paper will discuss the question from a European perspective, and investigate what impact emerging market patents may have on … employing patents as policy tools to stimulate innovation, and a more contemporary/economic approach looking at patents as … two facets of patents, can a meaningful response to the current emerging market patent tsunami be developed …

Patents in the life sciences sector have sparked considerable debate over the past years. The grant of a series of … patents for the screening of breast cancer (BRCA) genes led to wide controversy in Europe, the US and Australia. The grant of … patents for plants resulting from essentially biological processes, also spurred stormy disputes. Decisions on the scope of …

In the ongoing debate concerning DNA patents, there is a need for empirical data. We aim at treating this data set for … DNA patents related to diagnostic genetic testing. To this end we developed two tools to facilitate this process. First …, we set up a search strategy to find the relevant patents. Second, we provide a claim classification template to assist …

The genetics community is increasingly concerned that patents might lead to restricted access to research and health …

Various remedies have been suggested to deal with potential hindering effects of patents in the area of plant and human … controversies surrounding patents on plant traits and on human genes, and the growing discontent with some undesirable effects of … to invent and share. In other words: patents may be looked at as tools to reshape exclusions into inclusions, giving rise …

US patent practice to grant patents for human genes as a matter of routine. Although the Myriad decision has been … of the controversies surrounding gene patents and the growing discontent with some undesirable effects of the current … patent system, the paper analyses a series of measures to meet the alleged problematic impact of patents in the area of human …

biotechnology patents, to cater for readers who are not familiar with patents and the like. The paper then presents a survey of the …

their quest into the judicial treatment of patents in different industry sectors. They present an in-depth commentary on …