Identity, Invention, and the Culture of Personalized Medicine Patentin

Informationen zum Autor Shubha Ghosh is a Vilas Research Fellow, Professor of Law and Associate Director of the Initiatives for Studies in Transformational Entrepreneurship at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, School of Law. He is the author of more than fifty articles and book chapters and of two leading casebooks in intellectual property law. His research is in the area of intellectual property with a focus on social justice in the design of institutions that support innovation and development. Klappentext This book provides an overview of developments in personalized medicine patenting and explores its normative implications to suggest policies to best regulate it.This book provides an overview of developments in personalized medicine patenting, which develops medical treatments tailored to individuals based on race and other characteristics. The book explores the normative implications of personalized medicine patenting and suggests ways to best regulate policies. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Persons and patents; 2. Start-ups, up-starts, and markets for personalized medicine; 3. The case of race-specific patents; 4. Normative construction of identity; 5. Persons, patents, and policy; 6. A business, a litigant, a metaphor: the future of personalized medicine patents.

Product details

• Authors: Shubha Ghosh, Ghosh Shubha
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.09.2012
• EAN: 9781107011915
• ISBN: 978-1-107-01191-5
• No. of pages: 232
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Mercantile and commercial law; Law, LAW / Intellectual Property / General, intellectual property law, Medical & healthcare law, Regulation of medicines and medical devices, Patents law