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- Title
Intellectual Property and Biotechnology: The European Debate.
- Abstract
The European patent system allows for the introduction of moral issues into decisions about the granting of patents. This feature has greatly impacted European debates about the patenting of biotechnology. This essay explores the European experience, in both the European Union and the European Patent Organization. It argues that there has been great confusion surrounding these issues primarily because the Europeans have not developed a general theory about when exclusion from patentability is the best social mechanism for dealing with morally offensive technologies.
- Subjects
BIOTECHNOLOGY; INTELLECTUAL property; PATENT law; GENETIC engineering
- Publication
Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, 2007, Vol 17, Issue 2, p69
- ISSN
1054-6863
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/ken.2007.0008