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Copyright For Engineered Dna: An Idea Whose Time Has Come?, Christopher M. Holman
Copyright For Engineered Dna: An Idea Whose Time Has Come?, Christopher M. Holman
Christopher M Holman
The rapidly emerging field of synthetic biology has tremendous potential to address some of the most compelling challenges facing our planet, by providing clean renewable energy, nutritionally-enhanced and environmentally friendly agricultural products, and revolutionary new life-saving cures. However, leaders in the synthetic biology movement have voiced concern that biotechnology's current patent-centric approach to intellectual property is in many ways ill-suited to meet the challenge of synthetic biology, threatening to impede follow-on innovation and open access technology. For years, copyright and patent protection for computer software have existed side-by-side, the two forms of intellectual property complementing one another. Numerous academic commentators …
Beyond Recombinant Technology: Synthetic Biology And Patentable Subject Matter, Luigi Palombi
Beyond Recombinant Technology: Synthetic Biology And Patentable Subject Matter, Luigi Palombi
Luigi Palombi
Even though it is not yet clear as a matter of law that isolated biological materials are indeed patentable subject matter, not only have patents over such materials continued to be granted throughout the world, but the European Parliament passed the Biotechnology Directive in 1998 in an attempt to put an end to the debate. The problem is that TRIPS requires that patents be granted for 'inventions' only and there is a real question over whether isolated biological materials or those made by the use of synthetic biology are indeed inventions within the meaning of the word in TRIPS. But …