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Cancer's Ip, Jacob S. Sherkow
Cancer's Ip, Jacob S. Sherkow
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The state of publicly funded science is in peril. Instead, new biomedical research efforts — in particular, the recent funding of a “Cancer Moonshot” — have focused on employing public-private partnerships, joint ventures between private industry and public agencies, as being more politically palatable. Yet, public-private partnerships like the Cancer Moonshot center on the production of public goods: scientific information. Using private incentives in this context presents numerous puzzles for both intellectual property law and information policy. This Article examines whether—and to what extent — intellectual property and information policy can be appropriately tailored to the goals of public-private partnerships. …
The Future Of Gene Patents And The Implications For Medicine, Jacob S. Sherkow, Henry Greely
The Future Of Gene Patents And The Implications For Medicine, Jacob S. Sherkow, Henry Greely
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The Supreme Court decision in Myriad Genetics struck down the patenting of human genomic DNA. What will this mean for genetic testing and medicine, more broadly?