The CREATE Act: Increasing costs associated with the biotech industry?
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The CREATE Act, which became effective on September 15, 2005 is intended to promote collaboration among industry actors and ease innovation, decrease costs, encourage commercialization of patentable products in the biotech sector and ultimately promote dissemination of biotechnological advances to improve health. The Act might actually increase the costs of research, development and commercialization and hence is important to have close monitoring of the impact of the CREATE ACT as changes in the structure and financing of biotech are made response to the CREATE ACT.
Publication Name: Nature Biotechnology
Subject: Business
ISSN: 1087-0156
Year: 2006
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The gatekeepers of hES cell products
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The exclusive ownership among the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF), Geron, and the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the United States to control the access to human embryonic stem (hES) cells has intensified the debate over the impact of the US patent system on biomedical innovation and access to the market for hES cell products. Access to hES cells is mediated by a political, legal, and economic infrastructure assembled on the foundation of two US patents.
Publication Name: Nature Biotechnology
Subject: Business
ISSN: 1087-0156
Year: 2005
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The human use of humanoid beings: Chimeras and patent law
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The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) policy has ruled on whether a patent might issue on a self-aware, human-nonhuman chimera, but Congress is yet to legislate a dividing line between human and non-human patentable subject matter. The proposals that have provided guidelines to ban humanization of animals without imposing undue burdens on the biotech industry are discussed.
Publication Name: Nature Biotechnology
Subject: Business
ISSN: 1087-0156
Year: 2006
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