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The impact of patents on the development of genome-based clinical diagnostics: an analysis of case studies.
Genetics in medicine : official journal of the American College of Medical Genetics - 1 Mar 2009
Pierce Brandon L, Carlson Christopher S, Kuszler Patricia C, Stanford Janet L, Austin Melissa A
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PURPOSE: Fragmented ownership of diagnostic gene patents has the potential to create an "anticommons" in the area of genomic diagnostics, making it difficult and expensive to assemble the patent rights necessary to develop a panel of genetic tests. The objectives of this study were to identify US...
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