The US Supreme Court has recently written the last chapter of the “Myriad trilogy”. The issue at stake was about the patentatibility of the sequence of BRCA-1 and BRCA-2 linked to breast and ovarian cancer. The...
NEWS ABOUT BIOBANKS & THE LAW (NEW!) Giovanni Pascuzzi; Umberto Izzo; Matteo Macilotti (Eds.) Comparative Issues in the Governance of Research Biobanks Property, Privacy, Intellectual Property, and the Role of Technology SPRINGER, 2013 Contents and Contributors Read a...
EXPLORING THE LAW AND TECHNOLOGY RELATIONSHIP Law has often to deal with technologies, i.e. with human activities which, employing the attainments of science, bring into existence new media, tools, devices, systems which improve the quality of...
District Court Finds Isolated DNA To Be Unpatentable Subject Matter The United States District Court of NY issued a decision, which invalidated seven patents related to the genes BRCA1 and BRCA2, whose mutations have been associated...
ARTICLES AND BOOKS COVERING THE LEGAL IMPLICATIONS OF BIOBANKING IN GENERAL 2011 GIBBONS S., HEENEY C., KAYE J., PARKER M., SMART A. (eds.), Governing Biobanks: Understanding the Interplay Between Law and Practice, Hart...