Observations on a meeting on the ethics of intellectual property rights and patents

Science and Engineering Ethics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 151-158

  Spier, Raymond ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Genes; Harmonization; Intellectual property rights; Patents; Viruses

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; HUMAN; LAW; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PATENT; SOCIAL ASPECT; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 13744255455     PISSN: 13533452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-005-0066-4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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2. The Ethics of Patenting DNA (2002) Published by Nuffield Council on Bioethics, 28 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3JS. http://www.nuffieldbioethics.org/ go/ourwork/ http://www.intellectual-property.gov.uk/ipac/pdf/patrep.pdf
3. Convention on the Grant of European Patents (European Patent Convention) of 5 October 1973 text as amended by the act revising Article 63 EPC of 17 December 1991 and by decisions of the Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation of 21 December 1978, 13 December 1994, 20 October 1995, 5 December 1996 and 10 December 1998: Web site: http://www.european-patent-office. org/legal/epc/e/ma1.html.
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8. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/leicestershire/3934277.stm. The report on the BBC of a murder by a claw hammer by a youth engaged in playing a game with his friend. (Google has over half a million entries for "hammer murder")
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