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Patenting Part-Human Chimeras, Transgenics And Stem Cells For Transplantation In The United States, Canada, And Europe, Gregory R. Hagen, Sébastien A. Gittens
Patenting Part-Human Chimeras, Transgenics And Stem Cells For Transplantation In The United States, Canada, And Europe, Gregory R. Hagen, Sébastien A. Gittens
Richmond Journal of Law & Technology
The perceived need for part-human materials – considered to be biological materials containing human genetic material for the purposes of this paper – is at least twofold. First, given the continued shortage of human organs and other human biological materials suitable for transplantation, thousands of persons will suffer illness and death each year.
Franklin Pierce Law Center Educational Report: Patent Landscape Of Dna Vaccines For Hiv, Jon R. Cavicchi, Stanley P. Kowalski
Franklin Pierce Law Center Educational Report: Patent Landscape Of Dna Vaccines For Hiv, Jon R. Cavicchi, Stanley P. Kowalski
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Everything Is Patentable, Michael Risch
Everything Is Patentable, Michael Risch
Michael Risch
The currently confused and inconsistent jurisprudence of patentable subject matter can be clarified by implementing a single rule - that which is otherwise patentable under the Patent Act is patentable subject matter. In other words, if a discovery otherwise meets the requirements of patentability - namely category, utility, novelty, non-obviousness, and specification - then the discovery will be properly patentable without need to consider traditional non-statutory subject matter issues such as mathematical algorithms, products of nature, or natural phenomena. The primary virtue of the proposed rule is that it provides a more rigorous and consistent doctrinal framework for determining patentability. …