Z3365,
According to The National Academies, around 30,000 human gene patents
have been issued. A lot of these genetic discoveries are taking place
in public institutions, hospitals, and universities.
Source:
THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES
Meeting of the Committee on: Intellectual Property Rights in Genomic
and Protein-Related Inventions
October 1, 2004: Princeton University
http://www7.nationalacademies.org/step/Transcript_October-1_proteomics.pdf
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?The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office alone has issued approximately
20,000 patents on genes or gene-related molecules and 25,000 more
applications are pending.?
Worldwide
?More than 500,000 patents have been applied for on genes or gene
?sequences worldwide, according to the activist group GeneWatch UK.?
May 05, 2003
?Race to Patent SARS Virus Renews Debate?
*PAUL ELIAS*Associated Press*
http://lists.essential.org/pipermail/ip-health/2003-May/004703.html
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There are ~30,000 human gene patents issued (Cook-Deegan, 2003)
The Effects of Gene Patenting on Research by Jon F. Merz
Department of Medical Ethics and Center for Bioethics
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
http://www.genomeprairie.ca/ge3ls/iprights/Merz%20-%20Session%205.pdf
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According to Andrew W. Torrance, biotech patent attorney at Fish &
Richardson P.C. and lecturer at Harvard University, ?the U.S. Patent
and Trademark Office (PTO) has already granted approximately 20,000
patents involving genes, the polypeptides they encode, or fragments of
either. In addition, there are more than 20,000 patent applications
for such inventions currently undergoing "prosecution" (an examination
and negotiation process between patent attorneys and PTO technical
experts called examiners). Large numbers of gene-related patents have
also been granted or applied for in Europe, Japan, Canada, Australia,
and elsewhere.?
Bio IT World: November 2002
http://www.bio-itworld.com/archive/111202/insights_rush.html
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DNA Patent Database
The Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University and the
Foundation for Genetic Medicine sponsor a project to provide free
public access to the full text and analysis of DNA patents by the U.S.
Patent and Trademark Office (PTO).
http://www.genomic.org/
Updated weekly, the DPD contains over 37,000 DNA-based patents issued
from 1971 to the present and over 35,000 patent applications published
from 2001 to the present.
http://dnapatents.georgetown.edu/
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