Medical patent law : the challenges of medical treatment / Eddy Ventose.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ventose, Eddy D. (Eddy David), 1976-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicine--Patents--Law and legislation.

Medicine.

Health services accessibility--Law and legislation.

Health services accessibility.

Right to health.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (490 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, U.K. ; Northampton, Mass. : Edward Elgar Pub., c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book provides a detailed and comparative examination of medical patent law and the issues at the heart of the medical treatment exclusion for therapeutic treatments, surgical treatments and diagnostic methods. It firsts considers the historical basis for exclusion and the development of law and policy in Europe, the United States and other commonwealth countries. The book goes on to provide a detailed analysis of the issues related to new medical technologies, such as gene therapy, dosage regimes, and medical diagnostics, in light of the medical treatment exclusion. Medical Patent Law wil

Contents:

Arguments for patent protection

Arguments against patent protection

Therapeutic methods

Surgical methods

Diagnostic methods

Second and further medical uses

Manner of new manufacture

United Kingdom Patents Act 2004

United States of America.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 448-455) and index.

ISBN:

1-283-25531-6

9786613255310

0-85793-801-0

OCLC:

754582209