Patients and patents

Health-care patents and interests of patients.

Editor – I wish to congratulate Anatole Krattiger & Richard T. Mahoney on their editorial in the May issue of the Bulletin.1 As they point out, “Developi ing health technologies for the world’s poor people increasingly requires the wise management of intellectual propi erty (IP), and the papers in this issue all treat IP as a strategic asset.” Patent protection is intended to promote rei search...

Patents with an "I" = patients.

The authors address how patent protection in the United States is often quite narrow in scope, difficult to obtain, and insufficient in duration, thus stifling research and development of potential breakthrough pharmaceuticals. The authors further posit that countries that have enacted stronger intellectual property rights and research incentives have seen tremendous increases in foreign direct...

Patents or Patents Pending

An Aluminum Nitride (AlN) MEMS resonator technology has been developed, enabling massively parallel filter and oscillator arrays on a single chip. Low loss filter banks and resonator arrays covering the 10MHz10GHz frequency range have been demonstrated, as has monolithic integration with inductors and CMOS circuitry. The high level of integration enables miniature multi-band, spectrally-aware a...

Mail Stop Comments–patents Commissioner for Patents

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