How Does Emerging Patent Case Law in the US and Europe Affect Precision Medicine? How Will Today’s Patent Law Affect Tomorrow’s Innovation in the Areas of Biomarkers and Nature-Based Products; Diagnostics; and Algorithms, Big Data and AI?

Aboy, Mateo; Cohen, I. Glenn; Liddell, Kathleen; Liddicoat, John; Crespo, Cristina; Gerke, Sara; Minssen, Timo

How Does Emerging Patent Case Law in the US and Europe Affect Precision Medicine? How Will Today’s Patent Law Affect Tomorrow’s Innovation in the Areas of Biomarkers and Nature-Based Products; Diagnostics; and Algorithms, Big Data and AI?

Aboy, M., Liddell, K., Crespo, C. et al. How does emerging patent case law in the US and Europe affect precision medicine?. Nat Biotechnol 37, 1118–1125 (2019)

Posted: 18 Aug 2020

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Kathleen Liddell

University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law

John Liddicoat

University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law; University of Tasmania

Sara Gerke

Harvard University - Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics

Timo Minssen

University of Copenhagen - Centre for Advanced Studies in Biomedical Innovation Law (CeBIL) - Faculty of Law

Date Written: 2019

Abstract

Precision medicine has stirred the excitement of patients, physicians, industry, entrepreneurs, and investors — it is already a market that is worth tens of billions of dollars with very rapid growth expected. But the future of precision medicine heavily depends on the intellectual property frameworks that apply to its various forms. In order to chart this future, we compare recent patent case law in the US and Europe in three areas of precision medicine:

(1) biomarkers and nature-based products;

(2) diagnostics; and

(3) algorithms, big data, and AI.

We explain how today’s law will affect tomorrow’s innovation.

Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation

Aboy, Mateo and Cohen, I. Glenn and Liddell, Kathleen and Liddicoat, Johnathon and Crespo, Cristina and Gerke, Sara and Minssen, Timo, How Does Emerging Patent Case Law in the US and Europe Affect Precision Medicine? How Will Today’s Patent Law Affect Tomorrow’s Innovation in the Areas of Biomarkers and Nature-Based Products; Diagnostics; and Algorithms, Big Data and AI? (2019). Aboy, M., Liddell, K., Crespo, C. et al. How does emerging patent case law in the US and Europe affect precision medicine?. Nat Biotechnol 37, 1118–1125 (2019), Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3653091