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An analysis of the overlap of authors and inventors in a comprehensive citation map of patents to the biomedical research literature reveals significant and persistent disparities within the commercialization process.
Patent office data show robust and rising patenting of AI inventions in the medical field, contrary to fears that medical machine learning patents might be largely unavailable because of challenges to their subject-matter eligibility.
Over the past fifty years, intellectual property has not played a major role in the spread of assisted reproductive technology, but with in vitro gametogenesis — a technique likely to dominate the future of reproduction — it might.
Recent patents relating to employing metabolomic data to diagnose disease states and determine the likelihood that a patient will respond to certain treatments.
Legal barriers are preventing generic drug makers from being able to utilize the Patent Trial and Appeal Board for its intended purpose — to serve as a faster and less cumbersome alternative to district court litigation.
The COVID-19 pandemic dispelled some myths underlying intellectual property policy and revealed how stakeholders can develop policies to accelerate development and ensure access using existing tools and experimenting with open science.
Manufacturers of brand-name nebulizer solutions have employed a variety of strategies to preserve market dominance over their products but have been less successful than manufacturers of brand-name inhalers in preventing generic competition.
