Browsing Harvard Law School by Keyword "patent"
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DNA Sequences as Unpatentable Subject Matter
(2001)Man has played no part in creating DNA. It is nature which created and perfected DNA over thousands of years of evolution. What required man’s ingenuity was isolating, purifying, and sequencing the DNA. ... -
The Illusory Promise: Patents (Lack of) Power to Incentivize Drug Development for Poor Countries
(2006)Low-income countries suffer infectious and communicable diseases at a greater rate than any other income group. Because people living in these countries are not able to pay high drug prices, pharmaceutical companies do not ... -
Litigating the Drug Price Competition and Patent Term Restoration Act of 1984
(2000)The Drug Price Competition and Patent Term Restoration Act of 1984, also known as the Hatch-Waxman Act in honor of its sponsors Senator Orrin Hatch and Representative Henry Waxman, was enacted in an attempt to reconcile ... -
Patents – the Starting Gun in the Race for the Human Genome
(2005)The race to sequence the human genome between the federal government’s Human Genome Project and the private firm Celera Genomics is one of the most fascinating tales in the history of science. This paper explores the role ...