Intellectual Property and Bioethics
Life science innovations may significantly influence our future. Developments in molecular biology and their applications in health technologies and agriculture have provided new perspectives and created hope for new solutions. The rapid advances in this area accompanied by grant of patent rights on inventions related to, for example DNA sequences, protein sequences, stem cells, and other similar technologies, has prompted examination in international fora of the implications of intellectual property rights and their ethical underpinnings.
- Symposium on IP and Bioethics (September 4, 2007)
- Issues paper: Intellectual Property and Bioethics An Overview [PDF]
- An occasional series in the WIPO Magazine highlights issues that have arisen in some significant patent law cases concerning bioethics.
