As artificial intelligence (AI) continues its rapid evolution, it is generating groundbreaking innovations and transforming entire industries. However, with great ...

Intellectual property rights offset the financial risks of funding research but limit information access. Can a balance between private interests and public desire for treatments be achieved? As the ...

Predictions about the arrival of fault-tolerant quantum computing and commercially viable quantum computing vary widely. Some experts estimate that within the next three to five years, we may see ...

The impact on human health of the global pandemic of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the resulting disease termed COVID-19 cannot be overstated. Not since the influenza pandemic of 1918 have so many regions ...

The following contribution to our gene patenting symposium comes from Charles Rothfeld, Special Counsel at Mayer Brown in Washington, DC. The question in Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad ...

Patents represent a contract between an inventor and society. By granting time-limited market exclusivity, patents create the potential for inventors to generate high returns on successful innovations ...

In 2010, several studies were published examining the relationship between innovation, entrepreneurship and patenting. The first study provided a detailed analysis of the landmark 2008 Berkeley Patent ...

After watching the 60 Minutes segment on gene patenting Sunday evening, you could almost hear the groundswell of public support building for the recent New York federal court ruling, which invalidated ...

A patent doesn’t automatically guarantee you protection from predatory competitors. Lede: If you’re an ambitious entrepreneur with plans for a transformative product bouncing excitedly around your ...

Stephen Hitchcox discovered he had a potentially fatal genetic mutation one day when he was swimming and his heart started beating erratically. He lost consciousness and needed to be rescued and ...