Development and Implications of Patent Law
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European Commission
Abstract
Introduction
This is the second report pursuant to Article 16c of the Directive 98/44/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 July 1998 on the legal protection of biotechnological inventions and bears the title “Developments and implications of patent law in the field of biotechnology and genetic engineering” (hereinafter the “second 16c Report”).
Its purpose is to set out the key events which have occurred since publication of the first 16c Report, and to comment on two issues identified in the latter: the scope of patents on sequences or partial sequences of genes which have been isolated from the human body; and the patentability of human stem cells and cell lines obtained from them. The Commission’s analysis is based on the Commission staff working paper SEC(2005)943.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Editorial
- Biosafety Regulation Trends in Southern and Southeastern Asia
- Property in a Human Body: A Common Law Approach
- Pharmacogenomics: An In-House Advantage?
- The German Way of Dealing with “The Tragedy of the Anticommons” – Purpose-Bound Protection for Product Patents on Genetic Information in Germany
- Pharmacogenomics and Data Protection
- Development and Implications of Patent Law
- Life Sciences and Biotechnology
- Declaration on Human Cloning
- Gene Therapy in PR China: Regulations and Ethical Concerns
- Biotechnological Potential of Marine Sponges and their Associated Bacteria as Producers of New Pharmaceuticals (Part I)
