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Homework #2 and #5 are due M 10/12 or T 10/13 Lab times on Google Calendar Today: Patents

Homework #2 and #5 are due M 10/12 or T 10/13 Lab times on Google Calendar Today: Patents. Can you own an idea?. Can you own an idea? Would you share your idea if others will profit from it?. Can you own an idea? Would you share your idea if others will profit from it?

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Homework #2 and #5 are due M 10/12 or T 10/13 Lab times on Google Calendar Today: Patents

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  1. Homework #2 and #5 are due M 10/12 or T 10/13 Lab times on Google Calendar Today: Patents

  2. Can you own an idea?

  3. Can you own an idea? • Would you share your idea if others will profit from it?

  4. Can you own an idea? • Would you share your idea if others will profit from it? • Would you accept someone else taking credit for your idea(s)?

  5. Who owns your data?

  6. Who owns your data? UT Employers generally own their employees data.

  7. Protection of intellectual property was guaranteed in the U.S. Constitution (1787). The 1980 U.S. Supreme Court ruling (Diamond v. Chakrabarty) allowed patents for nonhuman life forms if there was human intervention in their creation. Scientific Integrity: an Introductory Text with Cases, 2nd ed. (2000) Marcina, F. L. ASM Press, Washington, D.C.

  8. Patents give 20 year monopoly for inventor www.uspto.gov

  9. Three types of U.S. patents: 1) Utility patents may be granted to anyone who invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, article of manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof; 2) Design patents may be granted to anyone who invents a new, original, and ornamental design for an article of manufacture; and 3) Plant patents may be granted to anyone who invents or discovers and asexually reproduces any distinct and new variety of plant. www.uspto.gov

  10. United States Patent number 7,445,235 by Makabe et al. issued on November 4, 2008 http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=7,445,235.PN.&OS=PN/7,445,235&RS=PN/7,445,235

  11. Patents give right to exclude others from making, selling, and/or using the invention. Patents are considered personal property and may be sold, licensed, etc. Scientific Integrity: an Introductory Text with Cases, 2nd ed. (2000) Marcina, F. L. ASM Press, Washington, D.C.

  12. Patentable inventions must be: • Useful • New or Novel • Non-obvious Scientific Integrity: an Introductory Text with Cases, 2nd ed. (2000) Marcina, F. L. ASM Press, Washington, D.C.

  13. Employers often receive a royalty-free license to a patent. Funding agencies also often have rights to patent licenses.

  14. Patents must be filed within 1 year of initial disclosure. In the U.S. a patent can be nullified if another can prove prior invention. Scientific Integrity: an Introductory Text with Cases, 2nd ed. (2000) Marcina, F. L. ASM Press, Washington, D.C.

  15. As public funding levels decrease, there is pressure on public institutions (universities and researchers) to seek alternate sources of funding. Patenting discoveries provides a possible revenue source. Scientific Integrity: an Introductory Text with Cases, 2nd ed. (2000) Marcina, F. L. ASM Press, Washington, D.C.

  16. Does patenting of DNA sequencing impede research or increase research by adding a profit motive? Scientific Integrity: an Introductory Text with Cases, 2nd ed. (2000) Marcina, F. L. ASM Press, Washington, D.C.

  17. Patent application may take from 1-5+ years Only registered patent attorneys or agents may represent a patent holder to the patent office. Scientific Integrity: an Introductory Text with Cases, 2nd ed. (2000) Marcina, F. L. ASM Press, Washington, D.C.

  18. The patent application must include sufficient information for someone “practiced in the art” to apply the patent.

  19. A 1998 patent application for human-animal chimera cells was rejected on the grounds of being immoral and too human. For more info see: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/science/july-dec05/chimeras_newman-ext.html Scientific Integrity: an Introductory Text with Cases, 2nd ed. (2000) Marcina, F. L. ASM Press, Washington, D.C.

  20. A 1998 patent application for human-animal chimera cells was rejected on the grounds of being immoral and too human. Many patents have been issued with cells containing human genes. How much human DNA makes a human? Scientific Integrity: an Introductory Text with Cases, 2nd ed. (2000) Marcina, F. L. ASM Press, Washington, D.C.

  21. Examples of current patents: • Atryn- antithrombin produced in transgenic goats (in milk) has anti-clotting properties

  22. Examples of current patents: • Atryn- antithrombin produced in transgenic goats (in milk) has anti-clotting properties • Evolutec has patents on proteins in tick saliva for use as anti-inflammatory

  23. Examples of current patents: • Atryn- antithrombin produced in transgenic goats (in milk) has anti-clotting properties • Evolutec has patents on proteins in tick saliva for use as anti-inflammator • GTG in Australia has patents on non-coding human DNA for detecting risk of various diseases

  24. Neem, say the women, helps babies sleep, keeps flies away, is a cosmetic, a disinfectant and a pesticide. Its leaves make good cattle fodder, its twigs are good for teeth and gums. It is used, they say, for snake bites, malaria, hysteria, high blood pressure, pain relief, skin diseases and a host of other ailments. Over 70 U.S. patents for use of Indian neem tree

  25. Neem, say the women, helps babies sleep, keeps flies away, is a cosmetic, a disinfectant and a pesticide. Its leaves make good cattle fodder, its twigs are good for teeth and gums. It is used, they say, for snake bites, malaria, hysteria, high blood pressure, pain relief, skin diseases and a host of other ailments. Over 70 U.S. patents for use of Indian neem tree One was rejected due to previous use in indigenous Indian culture

  26. Concerns of developing nations vs. industrialized countries Bioprospecting

  27. U.S. patent issued on cell line developed from indigenous 21 year old from New Guinea. Possible use in treating leukemia, NIH researchers listed as inventors.

  28. Lack of research on third world problems.(tuberculosis, malaria, cholera, dysentery…Not profitable.

  29. Homework #2 and #5 are due M 10/12 or T 10/13 Lab times on Google Calendar Next: Guest Lecture

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