Tag: Patent Law
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UK and Ireland Patent Network Virtual Seminar Series Launched
SCuLE’s Dr Naomi Hawkins and Dr Karen Walsh (Exeter University), together with Dr Aisling McMahon (Maynooth University), co-founders of the UK and Ireland Patent Scholars Network, have recently launched an online seminar series for the network. The seminar series offers a monthly forum to discuss research in progress from leading patent scholars based in the…
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Patents and Emerging Technologies Workshop
On 19 & 20 November 2019, the Patents and Emerging Technologies Workshop was held at the Wellcome Collection in London. The workshop was convened by SCuLE’s Dr Naomi Hawkins, as the final workshop of her ESRC Future Research Leaders project, “The Impact of Patents on Translational Research – Non-Invasive Prenatal Diagnosis in Europe and US”.…
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Dr Naomi Hawkins participates in OECD Workshop
On 17-18 September 2019, Dr Naomi Hawkins attended “Collaborative platforms for personalized health: realizing the potential of genomics and biobanks” in Stockholm, Sweden. This OECD Workshop, organised in collaboration with Vinnova (Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems), explored the institutional arrangements and business models underlying collaborative platforms in genomics and biobanks for personalized health. The…
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Exeter Law School hosts inaugural Patent Scholars Network
In the UK and the Republic of Ireland, there is a relatively small community of patent law scholars and at many institutions there is typically only a single patent law scholar. Although patent law scholars are keen members of the broader community of intellectual property law scholars, there are elements of patent law scholarship, often…
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The Impact of Patents on Translational Research: Non-Invasive Prenatal Diagnosis in Europe and the US
The intersection of patent law with cutting edge biomedical science presents important challenges to the operation of the law, both in theory and in practice. This research explores the role that patents play in the development and delivery of non-invasive prenatal testing, and considers the implications for the wider field of patents in emerging technologies…