History of a gene patent: tracing the development and application of commercial BRCA testing.

analysis of contract law of commercial expectations in patent license

In this research, protection of commercial expectation has been examined. The main question is how we could identify and assess existence of commercial expectations. In response, commercial expectation are acquisition of expectable benefit in market, mass production, absence of technical failure in licensed knowledge and so on. Therefore, it is essential to response by analysis of contract law ...

Supreme Court ruling broadens BRCA testing options.

T he day after Mother's Day, actress Angelina Jolie wrote an op-ed in the New York Times revealing her decision to undergo a double mastectomy after learning that she carries a deleterious mutation in the BRCA1 gene. Jolie and women like her who have certain germ-line BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations are at higher risk for breast and ovarian cancers. Jolie, whose mother died from ovarian cancer, said s...

The patent is political: the consequences of patenting the BRCA genes in Britain.

OBJECTIVES The paper explores the attempt by an American biotechnology company, Myriad Genetics, to use its patent rights over the BRCA genes to transfer its technology of genetic testing for breast and ovarian cancer to Britain. It also investigates the responses of British scientists, health care professionals and patient advocates to this attempted technology transfer. METHODS This paper i...

A Comparative Study on Patent Attorney in the Islamic Republic of Iran and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)

P-144: Egg and Embryo Donor's Application Forms in Infertility Centers; Medical, Genetic and Psychosocially Forms in Evaluating Potential Donor Candidate

Background: Nowadays, gamete and embryo donation is applied as effective process in treatment infertility problems. In order to participate in the process of donation, donors should complete an extensive questionnaire that details their personal and family medical history. Included in this questionnaire should be a detailed sexual history, substance abuse history, history of family disease, and...