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The Future Of Gene Patents And The Implications For Medicine, Jacob S. Sherkow, Henry Greely Jan 2013

The Future Of Gene Patents And The Implications For Medicine, Jacob S. Sherkow, Henry Greely

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The Supreme Court decision in Myriad Genetics struck down the patenting of human genomic DNA. What will this mean for genetic testing and medicine, more broadly?


Incentive Effects From Different Approaches To Holdup Mitigation Surrounding Patent Remedies And Standard-Setting Organizations, F. Scott Kieff, Anne Layne-Farrar Jan 2013

Incentive Effects From Different Approaches To Holdup Mitigation Surrounding Patent Remedies And Standard-Setting Organizations, F. Scott Kieff, Anne Layne-Farrar

GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works

Debates about patent policy often focus on the potential for the threat of a court-imposed remedy for patent infringement to cause manufacturing entities and others to suffer patent holdup, especially when standardized industries are involved. This article uses lessons from the broader economics and political science literatures on holdup to explore various approaches to setting remedies for patent infringement—namely injunctions and money damages in the form of lost profits or reasonable royalties—with an eye towards the nature and extent of various forms of holdup they each might generate. In so doing, the article contrasts various narrower sub-categories of the broad …


And How: Mayo V. Prometheus And The Method Of Invention, Jacob S. Sherkow Jan 2013

And How: Mayo V. Prometheus And The Method Of Invention, Jacob S. Sherkow

Articles & Chapters

The Mayo Court's novel test for patent eligibility — whether or not an invention involves “well-understood, routine, conventional activity, previously engaged in by researchers in the field” — focuses on how an invention is accomplished rather than what an invention is. That concern with the method of invention poses several normative, statutory, and administrative difficulties. Taken seriously, the “how” requirement will likely have broad effects across all levels of patent practice.


What If Extinction Is Not Forever?, Jacob S. Sherkow Jan 2013

What If Extinction Is Not Forever?, Jacob S. Sherkow

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