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- Title
Keeping score, strengthening policy and fighting bad actors over access to research tools.
- Authors
Bubela, Tania; Cook-Deegan, Robert
- Abstract
The article focuses on the recent U.S. Supreme Court's jurisprudence on patents and the use of policy that ensure access to research tools in the U.S. Topics discussed include lack of coherent legislative reform by making reference to the court case Madey v. Duke University, and litigation over Myriad Genetics' patents on BRCA genes associated with risk of breast and ovarian cancer in the court case Association for Molecular Pathology (AMP) v. Myriad Genetics.
- Subjects
UNITED States. Supreme Court; PATENTS; RESEARCH; GOVERNMENT policy; LEGISLATIVE reform; MYRIAD Genetics Inc.; BRCA genes; BREAST cancer risk factors
- Publication
Nature Biotechnology, 2015, Vol 33, Issue 2, p143
- ISSN
1087-0156
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/nbt.3131