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Amplifying The Washington Pro Bono Patent Network Through Legal Consults, Jennifer S. Fan
Amplifying The Washington Pro Bono Patent Network Through Legal Consults, Jennifer S. Fan
Presentations
The USPTO hosted a series of presentations related to patent pro bono work. This presentation discusses how the legal consult structure the University of Washington School of Law Entrepreneurial Law Clinic developed brings more visibility to the work of the Washington Pro Bono Patent Network.
Patents And The Pandemic: Intellectual Property, Social Contracts, And Access To Vaccines, Peter Lee
Patents And The Pandemic: Intellectual Property, Social Contracts, And Access To Vaccines, Peter Lee
Washington Journal of Law, Technology & Arts
Through enormous public support and private initiative, biopharmaceutical firms developed safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines in record time. These remarkable vaccines represent humanity’s best chance to end the devastating pandemic. However, difficult questions about ownership and access have arisen alongside the development and deployment of these vaccines. Biopharmaceutical companies have patented many of the technologies underlying these vaccines, thus seeming to pit intellectual property rights against the objective of wide and rapid dissemination of these critical resources. While prevailing debates have been framed in the language of intellectual property, this Article suggests that contract principles can help break the impasse …
Unravelling Inventorship, Toshiko Takenaka
Unravelling Inventorship, Toshiko Takenaka
Articles
Inventorship, who made an invention, is one of the most important concepts under the U.S. patent system. Incorrect inventorship determinations result in patent invalidity not only because U.S. Constitution requires granting patents to true inventors, but also first-inventorto- file novelty inherited many aspects of first-to-invent novelty which depended on inventorship whether to include prior inventions as prior art. Correcting inventorship may result in sharing patent exclusivity with competitors, which forfeits profits necessary to recover expensive development costs. However, the standard to determine inventorship has been called muddy by judges and commentators because neither the Patent Act nor case law provide …