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:

Family and Medical Law Discussion Group
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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.