Diagnostic Kits/The Search for Alternatives to Patents in the 21st Century
Palombi, L. The Search for Alternatives to Patents in the 21st Century. (2009) Available at http://cgkd.anu.edu.au/menus/publications.php#palombi
notes
Pg 3: Ref16 introduces "patent community concept"
Pg 4: Claims the patent community is making matters worse; ref17
Pg 5: presents the major harms of patents; Claims biotech patents encroach on research: "Once granted, patent monopolies limit the ability of scientists to develop alternative diagnostics, treatments and cures of human disease - in effect, the patent owners of the genes and proteins control their use in research, clinical and industrial applications." No direct reference.
Pg 12: 1967 British commission recommended a shorter monopoly patents followed by royalty rights but not exclusive licensing.
Pg 16: reviews IP dynamics around genentechs t-PA protein
Pg 20: US Congress report 111-18 on "need to update patent laws"
Pg 21: explains why patents are bad
Pg 21: Fritz Machlup reasoned that the Patent system should not have been instituted given what we know about economics, but now that it's here, it would cause more harm than not to dissolve it.
Pg 21: Ref110 "Global politics of pharmaceutical power"
Pg 22: What data is needed to reach valid, competent conclusions about patent reform? It's hard to define and harder to get / synthesize.
Pg 22: Ref117: 4 papers about GDx
pg 25: References an anonymous quote from the comments to an article in Corante (Patents Stopping an Alzheimer's Wonder Drug?) which provides anecdotal evidence of a patent thicket preventing the commercialization Alzheimer's treatments. Ref133.
Pg 22: asks: have rates of innovation risen w/ increasing patent terms?