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Genetic Testing In The Workplace: The Employer’S Coin Toss, Samantha French Sep 2002

Genetic Testing In The Workplace: The Employer’S Coin Toss, Samantha French

Duke Law & Technology Review

A toss of the coin by the modern-day employer reveals two options regarding genetic testing in the workplace. The employer may choose to take advantage of increasingly precise, available, and affordable genetic testing in order to ascertain the genetic characteristics - and deficiencies - of its employees. This outcome exposes the employer to a vast array of potential litigation and liability relating to the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Fourth Amendment, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, and state legislation designed to protect genetic privacy. Alternatively, the employer may neglect to indulge in this trend of genetic testing and …


Customizing Conception: A Survey Of Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis And The Resulting Social, Ethical, And Legal Dilemmas, Jason Christopher Roberts Jul 2002

Customizing Conception: A Survey Of Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis And The Resulting Social, Ethical, And Legal Dilemmas, Jason Christopher Roberts

Duke Law & Technology Review

One in six American couples experience difficulties conceiving a child. With fertility rates at an all time low, the business of treating infertility is booming. However, due to the United States prohibition on government funding for embryonic research, the $4 billion industry of assisted reproductive technologies (ART) has been incompletely monitored and largely removed from oversight. Additionally, due to the fervent abortion debate, in vitro fertilization (IVF) was introduced in the United States without a research phase and procedures have been forced to evolve in the private sector. Thus, the checks and balances on medical innovation that are generally imposed …


Appropriate Aims: Setting Boundaries For Reprogenetic Technology, Dana Ziker Jul 2002

Appropriate Aims: Setting Boundaries For Reprogenetic Technology, Dana Ziker

Duke Law & Technology Review

Not too long ago, ten fingers and ten toes defined a successful birth. Not too far from now, ten fingers and ten toes will be just the beginning. Parents always hope for a healthy baby, and medical advances continue to help secure the fulfillment of this hope. But reprogenetics, a new combination of technology and science that allows us to choose the genes, and thus the traits, of the children we create, is raising new questions about what it means to have a healthy baby.


Egregious Error Or Admirable Advance: The Memorandum Of Understanding That Enables Federally Funded Basic Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research, Amy Ligler Oct 2001

Egregious Error Or Admirable Advance: The Memorandum Of Understanding That Enables Federally Funded Basic Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research, Amy Ligler

Duke Law & Technology Review

Nothing contained herein shall be considered to be the grant of a commercial license or right under the Wisconsin Patent Rights or to Wisconsin Materials. Furthermore, nothing contained herein shall be construed to be a waiver of WiCell's patent rights under the Wisconsin Patent Rights or WiCell's property rights in Wisconsin Materials.


A Reconsideration Of The Physicians’ Immunity Statute, Steve Dirksen Aug 2001

A Reconsideration Of The Physicians’ Immunity Statute, Steve Dirksen

Duke Law & Technology Review

The author assesses the "physicians' immunity statute" from legal policy, ethical, and financial perspectives, and concludes that alternatives such as licensure and monetary incentives would better serve the goal of encouraging invention more effectively by rewarding it.


The Clone Wars: The Growing Debate Over Federal Cloning Legislation, John Garvish Jun 2001

The Clone Wars: The Growing Debate Over Federal Cloning Legislation, John Garvish

Duke Law & Technology Review

As readers of science fiction are well aware, the term "clone" refers to asexually produced offspring, that is, offspring produced by a process of cell-division which does not begin with the union of two sex cells. A clone is the genetic twin of the cell donor. Propagation of plants by this method is, of course, commonplace, but mammalian reproduction in this fashion would indeed be a revolutionary accomplishment, with profound and disturbing implications.


Where The Wild Wind Blows: Genetically Altered Seed And Neighboring Farmers, Jill Sudduth May 2001

Where The Wild Wind Blows: Genetically Altered Seed And Neighboring Farmers, Jill Sudduth

Duke Law & Technology Review

In March 2001, agro-business giant Monsanto won a victory in Canadian Federal Court over Saskatchewan farmer Percy Schmeiser. This case sets international precedent for appropriated seed cases and illustrates the primary concerns American courts must face as they consider Monsanto's prosecution of 22 cases against American farmers.


The Fate Of Gene Patents Under The New Utility Guidelines Feb 2001

The Fate Of Gene Patents Under The New Utility Guidelines

Duke Law & Technology Review

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) recently finalized its patent utility guidelines. Promulgated by the PTO, the new guidelines will be used by patent examiners in determining whether a claimed invention should be awarded patent protection ;and will be used by patent applicants and attorneys who file patent applications. The guidelines focus primarily on the utility standards for gene and gene fragment patents, an issue that was featured in the PTO's 1999 Revised Interim Utility Guidelines and has been the subject of considerable public debate.