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Resumen de tesis. The patentability of biotech and precision medicine inventions: subject matter eligibility of gene-related patents, biomarkers, diagnostics and algorithms for personalized medicine
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The patentability of biotech and precision medicine inventions: subject matter eligibility of gene-related patents, biomarkers, diagnostics and algorithms for personalized medicine
La patentabilidad de invenciones biotecnológicas y sobre la medicina de precisión: protección jurídica de las invenciones sobre genética, biomarcadores, tests diagnósticos y algoritmos para la medicina personalizada como materia susceptible de patente
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Tesis y disertaciones académicas
Universidad de Salamanca (España)
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Biotecnología
Medicina de precisión
Patentes de invención
Clasificación UNESCO
5605.03 Derecho Mercantil
5603 Derecho Internacional
Fecha de publicación
2020
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[EN]The overall goal of this doctoral thesis/dissertations (SJD) is 1) to examine the impact of three seminal international cases Myriad, Mayo, and Alice) by developing evidence-based (empirical) IP studies designed to understand the effect of these decisions at various levels of analysis, and 2) to conduct a comparative legal analysis across developed jurisdictions (US and Europe) on the patentability of information age inventions affecting precision medicine (biotech and computer-related inventions). These evidence-based IP studies include three levels of analysis:
- Broad-level impact analysis (before & after patent landscape effects)
- Claim-level impact analysis (before & after claims, claim scope, claim strategies, claim formulations)
- Prosecution-level analysis (before & after prosecution timelines, prosecutions strategies, effects on different types of entities). The results of these three level of analysis are also the basis of "wide-impact studies'' designed to understand the side effects, ripple effects, and unexpected consequences of legal, regulatory, or examination guidance changes. In summary, the fundamental aim of this doctoral thesis/dissertation is to conduct an in-depth legal analysis of key US Supreme Court decisions affecting biotech (Myriad and Mayo) and computer implemented inventions (Alice), as well as the corresponding European patent law in order to:
- better understand the legal impact of these decisions across both sides of the Atlantic;
- report the results of evidence-based studies aimed at analyzing the impact and effect of these seminal decisions;
- offer empirical evidence to on-going legal debates about the significance of these cases on the changing landscape of patents claiming 1) nucleic acids, 2) nature-based products, 3) biomarkers, 4) medical correlations and relationships, and 4) algorithms, AI and big data techniques; and
- compare the patent law jurisprudence and examine the degree of convergence/divergence with regards to substantive patent law between US and EPC signatory jurisdictions for information age inventions affecting the emerging field of precision medicine (biotech and computer-related).
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