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 |
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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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