Media, Information and Technoculture 2500A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Genetic Testing, Brca1, Trans-Pacific Partnership
19 Apr 2018
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Week 9: state enforced monopoly right, or right to exclude other from what belongs to you, your exclusive monopoly over that thing, also applies to intellectual property, you can prevent that thing that you created, legally. Troubling side of ipr: could limit the free flow of ideas, may inhibit innovation, so strong people are afraid to improve on it. In case they are subject to a lawsuit: can create monopolies, example: hiv/aids medicine is too expensive. They charged ,000. 00 for analysis of brca1 and brca2. In canada: casela(cid:449): (cid:272)a(cid:374)(cid:374)ot pate(cid:374)t ge(cid:374)eti(cid:272)all(cid:455) (cid:373)odified (cid:862)higher life for(cid:373)s(cid:863) (cid:894)su(cid:272)h as (cid:373)i(cid:272)e(cid:895), no case law on gene patents: scc has commented on issue of gene patents, but no actual case. Increased medicine by 5000%, etc: not illegal. Slowed down intro of radio for 20 years: ge similarly used patents to block florescent lights, because they were in incasecent lighting business.
