Our body of patent law is authorized by Article One, section 8, of the U.S. Constitution. It states that Congress shall have the power to promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries; writings in this instance would address copyrights. This exclusive right allows the innovator to prevent others from making, using, selling, exporting and importing the product of a patented process.3 In an ideal system, patents would behave like property rights, so that they may be sold, licensed, given away, or abandoned, just as they may be actively developed. These exclusive rights are mandated by U.S. law, the term of which is 20 years in most cases. All law pertaining to patents is found in US Code Title 35; the patentability of inventions is defined under Sections 100-105. Most notably, section 101[1] sets out subject matter that can be patented; section 102[2] defines novelty and loss of right to patent; section 103[3] lists what constitutes non-obvious subject matter.3 Our nation’s law differed markedly from European patent law in its “first to invent” nature. Until recently, our system determined who actually was first to invent rather than just “first to file” when awarding a patent. A measure aimed at increasing US Patent Office efficiency has revised this stipulation and brought U.S. law into closer harmony with the international community. International patent law is a vast topic on its own and will not be visited in this paper in great detail due to the emphasis on effects concerning our own economy; changes in international intellectual property law undoubtedly have an influence on our economy but are negligible ... ... middle of paper ... ...s the lack of resources and workforce to review these applications”12. Given the troubles of the USPTO and the growing number of documented cases of egregious patent litigation, many economists are attempting to answer the question; “Does our patent system need to be fixed?“ Opinions agreeing in the affirmative can be found in the same prevalence as those comfortable with the status quo. Some economists feel a “fine-tuning” is all that is needed. Among the abundance of “hot-button” policy questions surrounding our intellectual property system are genomic material issues, software patents, increased litigation, expansion of what is patentable, and patent holdup5. The remainder of the paper will look at the pros and cons of our current system and attempt to propose a consensus of the best remedies available to improve our economy through an envigorated patent system.
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A patent provides patent owners with protection and exclusive rights to their invention for up to 20 years. However, if the patent owner gives consent, the patent protection can be extended or sold to commercial distributors or other interested parties based on agreed upon terms. Patent laws forbid people or businesses from exploiting a process or invention from being commercially used, distributed or sold by anyone other than the patent holder. However, once the patent expires, the protection ends and becomes part of the public domain.
Deepsouth Packing Co. v. Laitram Corp.: This case led to Congress passing a law that would make the compilation of a large portion of a patented invention to be considered infringement. This even applied in cases where the parts are only sold outside of U.S. territory (e.g. in an attempt to circumvent U.S. patent law) (Peloso). BIBLIOGRAPHY: 464 U.S. 417, *104 S. Ct. 774, **78 L. Ed.
Lehman, Bruce. 2003. “The Pharmaceutical Industry and the Patent System”. International Intellectual Property Institute. Pages 1-14.
Gene patenting is a very controversial topic that have many scientists and researchers facing issues with their work. The patenting of genes raise many flags in the science world. Some examples of these cons of gene patenting are as follows. With all of this new technology coming out every day the government has a hard time regulated the work of these companies. The most controversial topic in gene patenting is that you can’t patent something found in nature. The final dispute about gene patenting is that those who patent the genes first have a monopoly on this gene, halting others from working with it. Gene patents should not be help by companies due to, halts in research, lack of monitoration, and the fact that you can’t patent something
Michael Crichton in “Patenting Life”and John E. Calfee in “Decoding The Use Of Gene Patents” discuss Gene Patent. Although the authors agree that the test for cancer is too expensive, the authors have different views about how much each patient should pay for medical expenses and who should get the better treatment by the cancer they have. Gene patents is very dangerous, but also very expensive to care for unfortunately. Test for breast cancer now costs $3,000 “Crichton”(441). Now because of it costing so much, they have had six lawsuits by 2008 “Calfee” (445).
“If you patent a discovery which is unique, say a human gene or even just one particular function of a human gene, then you are actually creating a monopoly, and that's not the purpose of the world of patents” (John Sulston). The articles “Patenting Life” by Michael Crichton, and “Decoding The Use of Gene Patents” written by John E. Calfee talk about the patenting of genes. Crichton and Calfee both discuss the different views on gene patenting. Crichtons position is against gene patents, while Calfee feels gene patents are beneficiary. Furthermore, the authors disagree with their views of gene patents. They have different views about the cost of the gene patent tests, the privacy of a person’s genes, and research of gene patenting.
Jonas Salk once said that things such as the sun and his polio vaccine should belong “to the people”. These “things” also include the genes that the Human Genome Project and all its collaborators have isolated thus far. The Human Genome Project’s mission is to sequence and map all of the genes that make up the human genome in order to improve medical treatment for genetic diseases and, quite possibly, eradicate them. However, companies who are involved in the isolation of individual genes are lobbying for the right to patent said genes. These companies are trying to establish a monopoly on something that is as much a creation of nature as it is the human body.
Intellectual property is an incredibly complicated facet of the law. In the United States, we have many laws in place to control and limit profiting from others intellectual property. The issue is not only profiting from others intellectual property, but not purchasing the property from the originator as well. We will discuss why it is important to protect this property as well as why it is tremendously difficult to regulate all these safe guards. “Intellectual Property has the shelf life of a banana.” Bill Gates
Intellectual Property Law used to only protect art, music, and literature, but because of technological development, Intellectual Property Law now also protects a greater variety of innovations including designs, inventions, symbols, discoveries, and words. The phrase “intellectual property” was first known to be used in the late 1700’s; however, it was not widely talked about, nor was the Intellectual Property Law in actuality commonly implemented. Intellectual Property Rights slowly gained more attention by mid-1800’s after the Industrial Revolution had taken place: more companies were created, competition between corporations became fiercer, and owning unique innovations were crucial to winning the competition. However, as Intellectual Property
Because of its intangible nature, and particularly the increase of the digital domain and the internet as a whole, computers and cyber piracy make it easier for people to steal many forms of intellectual property. Due to this major threat, intellectual property rights owners’ should take every single measure to protect their rights. Unless these rights are either sold, exchanged, transferred, or appropriately licensed for use in exchange for a monetary fee, they should be protected at all cost. In order to protect these rights, the federal and states governments have passed numerous laws and statutes to protect intellectual property from misappropriation and infringement. “The source of federal copyright and patent law originates with the Copyright and Patent ...
In the United States Constitution it states “The Congress shall have power ... to promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries” (Garofalo 33).1
The New South Wales Criminal trial and sentencing process is adequate in balancing the rights of the victims, offenders and society however like any legal system is does have its faults. The options in the trial and sentencing process are stipulated in the Criminal Procedure Act 1986, the Crimes (Sentencing Legislation) Amendment (Intensive Correction Orders) Act 2010 and the Crimes (sentencing procedure) Act 1999 which features the use of charge negotiation, rehabilitation, mitigating factors and intensive corrective orders.
Patents claims focus of the mechanism, principles and components surrounding those ideas. Patents are the strongest of the law to protect the intellectual property. Patent law is based on a very strict liability standard, making a business owner’s strongest option for intellectual property protection. Patents often make use of reverse engineering. Through reverse engineering, they see if patented inventions are in used by another company. Patents have an expiration date; the design patent protect design, shape, configuration and appearance of any invention for 14 years, and utility patents that protect functional makeover and new invention last for 20