PSCI 4396 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: United States Patent And Trademark Office, National Institutes Of Health, Microsoft Onenote
20 Jan 2016
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More often than not, the court has sided with the biotech industry. The role of court is to normalize the science. The court might be able to create legitimacy for sciences to the public. Early meeting in the 70s from people doing these research. Nih adopts these standards and policies nih-funded labs. Private companies don"t have to follow the asilomar-conference rules. Nobody to police these unregulated research labs (late 70s-early 80s) Chakrabarty creates a bacterium that can eat crude oil. Patent appeals court reverses, says a patent should be issued. This bacteria doesn"t exist in nature; exclusively made by him. Claims you can"t patent something that is alive. If its invented by a human, it can be patented. The intent of the patent act is to be interpreted broadly. Uspto doesn"t really use this ability to patent organisms. They really limit to only simple single celled organisms. Eventually by the late 80s they start issuing more patents.
