PUBPOL 201 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: European Patent Law, Corporatism, Inventive Step And Non-Obviousness
16 Nov 2017
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Europe opened its doors much, much wider to new constituencies, maintains a more corporatist approach. the united states reinforced its techno-legal definition of patents the united states deployed expertise barriers to maintain a narrow approach to its constituency. European parliamentarians had determined that patents on animals hurt their welfare directly, and therefore had limited the practice in their. But to the pto officials, patent lawyers, and inventors, who were accustomed to a system that treated patents as purely techno-legal objects and to a patent system that was extremely limited in scope, these suggestions seemed simply ridiculous. Diamond v. chakrabarty, patents served the public interest by stimulating innovation, nothing more. argued that those concerned. Congress could still intervene in the patentability of life forms, although it had seemed unsympathetic to similar public-interest concerns in the past. Kastenmeijer hearings where many nontraditional participants including environmentalists, animal- rights activists, bioethicists, religious leaders, and farmers weighed in. reiterated the worries articulated during the.
