User:Mac/Meeting Notes

25 Aug 2009

Mac: focus on technology of kits

(first look at developmental process, then we will analyze access to the kit)

• What is a diagnostic kit?
• Where are kits sold, to whom, for what?
  • Diagnose a disease; predict a disease; Direct-to-Consumer kits
• What are the inputs needed to develop a kit?
• What is the development process / value chain that leads to a clinical diagnostic kit?
• Aare there commons-based models active anywhere along the kit development pipeline (w/ andrew)

Andrew talks about patents

Andrew there Thurs & Fri: Just enumerating the patents that might pertain to diagnostics is hard:

• multiple databases
• classification scheme for scope of protection
• Carol: "we know duke team behind oft-used duke patent database; we can get in touch with them"