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Biotech industry warns about legal challenge
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| ELEANOR HALL: Australia's biotechnology
| industry is warning that the court challenge
| being launched today against the patenting of
| human genetic material could kill off
| investment in the industry.
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| Lawyers have begun legal action against four
| biotechnology companies, which co-own the
| patent to the breast cancer gene.
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| They say companies shouldn't have the right
| to commercialise the human body.
|
| But representatives of the biotechnology
| industry say the landmark legal case could
| stifle innovation and investment in important
| medical research.
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http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2010/s2921333.htm
Recent:
Think Gene Patents Are Controversial Now? Just Wait
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| Of course, the $1,000 genome is likely
| years away, and those who favor exclusive
| patents on diagnostics say theyâre
| necessary for companies to make their money
| back on research and development.
|
| But exclusive patents may already be
| keeping some patients in the dark, the WSJ
| article says. It describes a new method of
| genetic testing called chromosomal
| microarrays that can pick up chromosomal
| abnormalities in the genome. Whatâs a
| doctor to do if that kind of analysis
| encompasses a gene thatâs already patented
| â tell the patient or stick to the letter
| of the law?
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http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2010/04/14/think-gene-patents-are-controversial-now-just-wait/
Microsoft stocks Washington's patent portfolio
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| Eighty-five percent of Microsoft's patents
| were for software -- and patenting software
| remains intensely controversial.
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http://blog.oregonlive.com/siliconforest/2010/04/microsoft_fuels_washingtons_st.html
EU Patent system taken away from European Court of Justice
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| Business Europe fiercely opposes a role for
| the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in
| patent law. During a conference in the
| European Parliament in Strasbourg, Thierry
| Sueur of Business Europe disclosed the
| United Patent Litigation System (UPLS) was
| aimed to keep the ECJ away from
| interpreting substantive patent law under
| the European Patent Convention (EPC),
| particularly for software patentability.
|
| Hartmut Pilch analysed in 2007: "In July
| 2005, after several failed attempts to
| legalise software patents in Europe, the
| patent establishment changed its strategy.
| Instead of explicitly seeking to sanction
| the patentability of software, they are now
| seeking to create a central European patent
| court, which would establish and enforce
| patentability rules in their favor, without
| any possibility of correction by competing
| courts or democratically elected
| legislators."
|
| Benjamin Henrion, President of the FFII,
| comprehends their concerns: "While the US
| Supreme Court can review decisions of the
| Texas patent courts, this recourse would
| not be available to Europeans. A newly
| created UPLS patent court would have the
| final say over software patentability."
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http://press.ffii.org/Press%20releases/EU%20patent%20system%20taken%20away%20from%20European%20Court%20of%20Justice
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