Whither gene patenting and the patenting of diagnostic methods post-Mayo and Myriad? The need for certainty in navigating the high seas of policy

• المؤلف الرئيسي: SAW, Cheng Lim
• التنسيق: text
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2016
• الموضوعات: Biotechnological inventions; human genetics; molecular diagnostics; public health; comparative law; patentable subject matter; patent eligibility; discovery-invention distinction; EU Biotech Directive; Intellectual Property Law
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/1821; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sol_research/article/3773/viewcontent/Whither_Gene_Patenting_Post_Myriad__Publication_Copy___LIT_.pdf

This paper is prompted by a series of recent high-profile decisions emanating from the apex courts in the US and Australia – namely, Mayo and Myriad – on the patent eligibility of gene-based inventions. Adopting a comparative approach, this paper critically examines whether isolated gene sequences a...