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    Decision-Makers, Institutional Influences and the Role of Ethical issues in the Patenting of Biotechnological Inventions in Europe: Enter the Unitary Patent System.


    McMahon, Aisling (2023) Decision-Makers, Institutional Influences and the Role of Ethical issues in the Patenting of Biotechnological Inventions in Europe: Enter the Unitary Patent System. In: European Patent Law: The Unified Patent Court and the European Patent Convention. De Gruyter, Germany. ISBN 9783110774016

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    Abstract

    This chapter focuses specifically on one long contested area, namely, the role of ethical considerations in patent decision-making for biotechnological inventions in Europe. More specifically, the chapter examines to what extent the introduction of the UPC– and the unitary patent system more generally – has the potential to influence the current interpretative approach for how ethical issues are considered in the patenting of biotechnological inventions in Europe. It puts forward the case for why a renewed conversation is urgently needed around what normative role ethical issues should play in European patent law at this juncture.
    Item Type: Book Section
    Keywords: Decision-Makers; Institutional Influences; Role; Ethical issues; Patenting; Biotechnological Inventions; Europe; Unitary Patent System;
    Academic Unit: Faculty of Social Sciences > Law
    Item ID: 17504
    Depositing User: Aisling McMahon
    Date Deposited: 07 Sep 2023 09:19
    Publisher: De Gruyter
    Refereed: Yes
    Funders: Funded by the European Union (ERC, PatentsInHumans, Project No. 101042147)
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    URI: https://mu.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/17504
    Use Licence: This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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