Medical Ethics and the Myths of the Medical Methods Exclusion
Speaker(s):
Dr Catherine Kelly, University of Bristol
Series:
Medical Law and Ethics Discussion Group Seminar Series
Associated with:
Dr Catherine Kelly is a Reader in Law at the University of Bristol Law School.
This paper explores the prevailing notion that medical ethics underpin the medical methods exclusion from patenting which holds in most jurisdictions. It considers how this idea has continued to hold sway in recent cases which purport to erode the exclusion.