It is a bedrock principle of patent law that an inventor need not understand how or why an
invention works. The patent statute simply requires that the inventor explain how to make …

A hallmark of this; pe of behavior is securing Iage patent holdings to create competiive
advantages associated with the siZe of the portfoio, regardless of the value of the underlying …

HIS Article speculates on one possible, albeit controversial, answer to the problem of
economic development in developing countries: whether so-called intellectual property …

Whole-genome sequencing has been hailed as the crucial next step in personalized
medicine. It has also been described as likely violating hundreds-if not thousands-of pre …

Patent claims are supposed to clearly and succinctly describe the patented invention, and
only the patented invention. This Article hypothesizes that a substantial amount of language …

Patenting New Uses for Old Inventions Page 1 Patenting New Uses for Old Inventions Sean B.
Seymore* A bedrock principle of patent law is that old inventions cannot be patented. And a new …

The intellectual property regimes we have currently in place are heavily under attack. One of
the points of criticism is the interaction between two elements of article 27 of the Universal …

Although patent law aims to promote technological progress,'its impact on scientific research-
a key driver of such progress-is highly complicated. In analyzing this issue, context as well …

In Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myiad Genetics,'the Supreme Court addressed a
seemingly straightforward question:" Are human genes patentable?" 2 The Court's cryptic …

This article provides a game theory and law-and-management analysis of forprofit
pharmaceutical public-private partnerships, a complex type of legal arrangement in the …