Thesis
The emergence of a medical exception from patentability in the 20th century
- Abstract:
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Many patent law dilemmas arise from a failure to understand technologies as embedded in broader social, economic and political realities and to contextually analyze these legal phenomena. This narrowness leads to poor legal development, of which the modern medical exception from patentability is one example. Judges have difficulty interpreting it, patentees do not understand its purpose and it does not protect the important medical technologies to which the public would like access. This thes...
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Funding
+ "Rhodes Trust", "Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada"
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Funding agency for:
Piper, S
Bibliographic Details
- Publication date:
- 2008
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- Oxford University, UK
Item Description
- Language:
- English
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- Subjects:
- UUID:
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- Local pid:
- ora:8440
- Deposit date:
- 2014-05-14
Terms of use
- Copyright holder:
- Stamatia Piper
- Copyright date:
- 2008
- Notes:
- Chapters 3-5 of this thesis are not currently available online via ORA.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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