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Patenting medical and genetic diagnostic methods

Title
Patenting medical and genetic diagnostic methods / Eddy D. Ventose.
Author
Ventose, Eddy D. (Eddy David), 1976-
Publication
  • Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA, USA : Edward Elgar, [2013]
  • ©2013

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Description
xiv, 214 pages; 24 cm
Summary
This thoroughly-documented book explores in detail the issue of patenting medical and genetic diagnostic methods in the United States. It examines decisions of the Patent Office Boards of Appeal and the early courts on the question of whether medical treatments were eligible for patent protection under section 101 of the Patents Act. It then traces the legislative history of the Medical Procedures and Affordability Act that provided immunity for physicians from patent infringement suits.
Subject
  • Diagnostik
  • Medical instruments and apparatus > United States > Patents
  • Diagnosis, Laboratory > United States > Equipment and supplies > Patents
  • Genetic disorders > Diagnosis > Equipment and supplies > Patents. > United States
  • Patent laws and legislation > United States > Cases
  • Genetic disorders > Diagnosis > Equipment and supplies > Patents
  • Diagnosis, Laboratory > Equipment and supplies > Patents
  • Medical instruments and apparatus > Patents
  • Patents as Topic > legislation & jurisprudence
  • Therapeutics > methods
  • Equipment and Supplies
  • Genetic Testing > legislation & jurisprudence
  • Diagnosis, Laboratory > Equipment and supplies
  • Genetic disorders > Diagnosis > Equipment and supplies
  • Medical instruments and apparatus
  • Patent laws and legislation
  • Patentrecht
  • Medizin
  • Humangenetik
  • United States
  • United States
  • USA
Genre/Form
  • Legislation
  • legislative records.
  • Legislative materials.
  • Court decisions and opinions.
  • Patents.
  • Trials, litigation, etc.
  • Lois et codes.
  • Documents législatifs.
  • Recueils de jurisprudence et d'opinions.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Initial determination -- Legislative intervention -- Patent-eligibility -- Consideration by the Federal Circuit -- Consideration by the Supreme Court.
ISBN
  • 9781781001776
  • 1781001774
  • 9781781001783 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2012948845
OCLC
  • ocn818462430
  • 818462430
  • SCSB-1683916
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library