Intellectual property/ownership issues

Louisiana Law Review

Volumn 66, Issue SPEC. ISS., 2005, Pages 69-77

  Wells, Robert ^a  

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1. Information about Affymetrix, a bioinformatics company based in California, is available at http://www.affymetrix.com.
2. For information about the Human Genome Project and related advances, visit the site of the National Human Genome Research Institute, http://www.genome.gov.
3. Affymetrix's "GeneChip" technology was invented in the late 1980s by a team of scientists headed by the company's founder, Stephen P. A. Fodor, Ph. D. See Affymetrix, Corporate History, http://www.affymetrix.com/ corporate/history/index.affx.
4. Stephen P. A. Fodor et al., Light-Directed, Spatially Addressable Parallel Chemical Synthesis, 251 Science 767-73 (1991).
5. See id.
6. See generally Josiah Bunting, III, Ulysses S. Grant (Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. ed., Times Books 2004).
7. See generally T. Ready, Access to Presidential DNA Denied, 5 Nature Med. 859 (1999);
8. G. Terry Sharrer, What's in Grant's Tumor?.
9. Sharrer, supra note 7.
10. Id.
11. Id.
12. Id.
13. See generally Scott A. Armstrong et al., MLL Translocations Specify a Distinct Gene Expression Profile that Distinguishes a Unique Leukemia, 30 Nature Genetics 41, 41-47 (2002).
14. See id.
15. For information about BSE, visit the website of the U. S. Food and Drug Administration, http://www.fda.gov/oc/opacom/hottopics/bse.html.
16. See Ania Lichtarowicz, The End of the Beginning, (2005), http://news.bbc.co. Uk/2/hi/sciencenature/l 100726.stm.
17. J. Michael McGinnis, Population Health and the Influence of Medical and Scientific Advances, 66 La. L. Rev. (Special Issue) 9, 10 (2006).
18. Information about Affymetrix's research is available at http://www.affymetrix.com. More recently, Affymetrix worked with an Amish community in Lancaster, Pennsylvania to identify the gene responsible for a new form of sudden infant death syndrome following the death of twenty-one Amish babies from the disease.
19. See Dr. Holmes Morton et al., A Modern Miracle in the Most Traditional of Communities, Oct. 2004, http://www.affymetrix.com/community/wayahead/modern- miracle.affx.
20. See generally John M. Barry, Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America (Simon & Schuster 1998).
21. See generally id.
22. See Richard C. Atkinson et al., Public Sector Collaboration for Agricultural IP Management, 301 Science 174, 174-75 (2003).
23. See Integra Lifesciences I, Ltd., v. Merck KGaA, 331 F.3d 6860 (Fed. Cir. 2003)
24. Vacated, 125 S. Ct. 2372 (2005)
25. Remanded to 421 F.3d 1289 (Fed. Cir. 2005).
26. See generally Lawrence B. Ebert, In Favor of The Federal Circuit Position in Merck v. Integra, 87 J. Pat. & Trademark Off. Soc'y 321 (2005).