IGWG Briefing Paper on Patent Pools

Sunday, 03 June 2007


 

IGWG Briefing Paper on Patent Pools

Collective Management of Intellectual Property  — The use of Patent Pools to expand access to essential medical technologies

KEI Research Note 2007:3 (1)

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Notes on the Bayh-Dole Act of 1980

Sep 2, 2009 The Bayh-Dole Act (or University and Small Business Patent Procedures Act) was originally enacted in 1980 as Public Law 96-517, and was amended in 1984 by Public Law 98-620. Among other things, the Bayh-Dole Act was designed… Continue Reading

Abbott sought compulsory license in 2007 US patent dispute

Sunday, 29 April 2007

(When the shoe was on the other foot, Abbott asked for a compulsory license, while criticizing Thailand for issuing compulsory licenses)
 

On the 12th of January 2007, Abbott Laboratories lost a bid in a U.S. District Court (the Western District of Wisconsin) for a compulsory license on a patent held by Innogenetics, Inc. that a judge and jury said Abbott infringed to manufacture and sell Hepatitis C virus (HCV) genotyping test kits.

 

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