Gene patents and collaborative licensing models : patent pools, clearinghouses, open source models, and liability regimes / edited by Geertrui Van Overwalle.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Overwalle, Geertrui van, editor.

Series:

Cambridge intellectual property and information law ; 10.

Cambridge intellectual property and information law ; 10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Genetics--Patents.

Genetics.

Genre:

Patents.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxv, 477 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Gene Patents & Collaborative Licensing Models

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

Concerns have been expressed that gene patents might result in restricted access to research and health care. The exponential growth of patents claiming human DNA sequences might result in patent thickets, royalty stacking and, ultimately, a 'tragedy of the anti-commons' in genetics. The essays in this book explore models designed to render patented genetic inventions accessible for further use in research, diagnosis or treatment. The models include patent pools, clearing house mechanisms, open source structures and liability regimes. They are analysed by scholars and practitioners in genetics, law, economics and philosophy. The volume looks beyond theoretical and scholarly analysis by conducting empirical investigation of existing examples of collaborative licensing models. Those models are examined from a theoretical perspective and tested in a set of operational cases. This combined approach is unique in its kind and prompts well founded and realistic solutions to problems in the current gene patent landscape.

Contents:

Patent pooling for gene-based diagnostic testing: conceptual framework / Birgit Verbeure

Case 1. The MPEG LA licensing model: what problem does it solve in biopharma and genetics? / Lawrence A. Horn

Case 2. The SARS case: IP fragmentation and patent pools / Carmen E. Correa

Critical analysis of patent pools / Jorge A. Goldstein

Clearinghouse mechanisms in genetic diagnostics: conceptual framework / Esther van Zimmeren

Case 3. The global biodiversity information facility (GBIF): an example of an information clearinghouse / James L. Edwards

Case 4. BirchBob: an example of a technology exchange clearinghouse / Esther van Zimmeren and Dirk Avau

Case 5. The public intellectual property resource for agriculture (PIPRA): a standard license public sector clearinghouse for agricultural IP / Alan B. Bennett and Sara Boettiger

Case 6. The Science Commons Material Transfer Agreement Project: a standard license clearinghouse? / Thinh Nguyen.

Case 7. The collective management of copyright and neighbouring rights: an example of a royalty collection clearing house / Jan Corbet

Comment on the conceptual framework for a clearinghouse mechanism / Michael Spence

Open source genetics: conceptual framework / Janet Hope

Case 8. CAMBIA's Biological Open Source Initiative (BiOS) / Nele Berthels and Richard Jefferson

Case 9. Diversity Arrays Technology Pty Limited (DArT) Applying the open source philosophy in agriculture / Andrzej Kilian

Critical commentary on 'open source' in the life sciences / Arti K. Rai

Several kinds of 'should' : Tthe ethics of open source in life sciences innovation / Antony S. Taubman

Pathways across the valley of death. Novel intellectual property strategies for accelerated drug discovery / Arti K. Rai [and others]

Case 10. The International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA) : the standard material transfer agreement as implementation of a limited compensatory liability regime / Victoria Henson-Apollonio.

Critical analysis of property rules, liability rules, and molecular futures: bargaining in the shadow of the cathedral / Dan L. Burk

Gene patents: from discovery to invention, a geneticist's view / Gert Matthijs and Gert-Jan Van Ommen

'Patent tsunami' in the field of genetic diagnostics: a patent practitioner's view / Jacques Warcoin

Gene patents and clearing models: some comments from a competition law perspective / Hanns Ullrich

Access to genetic patents and clearing models: an economic perspective / Reiko Aoki

The role of law, institutions, and governance in facilitating access to the scientific research commons: a philosopher's perspective / Tom Dedeurwaerdere

Of thickets, blocks, and gaps: designing tools to resolve obstacles in the gene patents landscape / Geertrui Van Overwalle.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9780511581182

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.