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Genetic Diagnostic Testing: The "Anti-Commons" Revisited?

By Donald Zuhn, Kevin Noonan, Chris Singer, Sherri Oslick, and Jason Derry

By Kevin E. Noonan -- "Monopoly" is a loaded buzzword when it comes to patents. It is imprecise, indeed incorrect, but it can be effective in appealing to prejudices that emphasize a negative view of patent rights. It also effectively telegraphs the writer's own prejudices, so that when it is used in the title of a putatively academic article it can be particularly jarring. Such an article appears on-line today in the March 26th edition of Nature, in a commentary by Robert Cook-Deegan, Subhashimi Chandrasekharan, and Mishra Angrist of the Institute for Genome Science and Policy at Duke University. Entitled...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on March 25, 2009 (boomark / email).