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Contracting To Preserve Open Science: The Privatization Of Public Policy In Patent Law, Peter Lee
Contracting To Preserve Open Science: The Privatization Of Public Policy In Patent Law, Peter Lee
Peter Lee
Patents on biomedical research tools—technological inputs to experimentation—may inhibit scientific inquiry and the development of life-enhancing therapies. Various “public law” approaches to address this challenge, such as a common law experimental use exception to patent infringement, have achieved limited success. In the wake of these shortcomings, this Article argues that institutions are utilizing a new model of private ordering to resolve research holdup. Increasingly, federal and state agencies, universities, non-profits, and disease advocacy groups are conditioning the provision of vital research support on requirements that recipients of this support make resulting patented inventions widely available for noncommercial research purposes. In …