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Ana Nordberg

Senior lecturer

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Economic Justification of Patents and Exceptions to Patentability

Author

  • Ana Nordberg

Summary, in English

The present article is the conclusion of a review of economic justifications for patent rights conducted with the objective of determining whether such arguments are per se capable of sustaining the existence of a different patentability regime for inventions of methods for treatment and diagnostic methods (art.53 (c) European Patent Convention). It starts by exploring the normative background and summarily describes the different types of claims allowed under the current legal framework and their differences. The following sections will describe and apply the main economic arguments sustaining patent rights inventions of methods for treatment and diagnostic methods. These reasoning will be later confronted with contra-arguments. This piece will finalize with the formulation of conclusions extracted from the previous debate, inter-alia that economic reasoning does not per se sustain the existence of the so-called 'medical exception' in European patent law.

Department/s

  • Human Rights Law

Publishing year

2012

Language

English

Pages

316-329

Publication/Series

NIR: Nordiskt immateriellt rättsskydd

Volume

3

Issue

2012

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Föreningen för Nordiskt Immateriellt Rättsskydd

Topic

  • Law

Keywords

  • Law
  • Patent law
  • Rättsvetenskap
  • Patenträtt

Status

Published

Research group

  • Human Rights Law

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0027-6723