Diagnostic Kits/Paper

Are patents clogging the pipeline: The effects of intellectual property on commercialization and access to genetic diagnostics
(A Summary Paper of our Research to date)
By Carolina Rossini, Andrew Clearwater, and Mackenzie Cowell

Last Draft: December 3, 2009

Introduction

Description of the GDx Market

Defining Genetic Diagnostics

from Educational_Materials#Field_Definition

Brief History of GDx and Related Technology

• chemical patents at turn of century (see Palombi's work)

=== Overview of IP Landscape === (see overview)

Forces affecting the GDx Industry

• Technical advances