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Stranger In A Strange Land: Biotechnology And The Federal Circuit, Lawrence M. Sung Jan 2000

Stranger In A Strange Land: Biotechnology And The Federal Circuit, Lawrence M. Sung

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Patents And Cumulative Innovation, Clarisa Long Jan 2000

Patents And Cumulative Innovation, Clarisa Long

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Proprietary rights to the products of biomedical research have repeatedly been a source of controversy for over twenty years. Patents on biomedical innovations have allowed scientists, academics, and research institutions to raise research funds and have contributed to the growth of the biotechnology industry. But “one firm’s research tool may be another firm’s end product.” Patents have been a source of great concern for academic and basic researchers, who fear that proprietary rights to basic research results will hamper the progress of science, stifle the free flow of new knowledge and the dissemination of research results, and chill the research …