Devaiah Vishwas H
Liverpool Law School, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.
Indian J Med Ethics. 2010 Jan-Mar;7(1):14-7. doi: 10.20529/IJME.2010.005.
This paper examines the impact of bioethics on patent claims. The increase in research activities involving human biological materials, and the rush to commercialise inventions derived from such biological materials, can at times result in unethical conduct of research. Questions arise as to whether patent law should concern itself with tainted research that has resulted in an invention or whether it should grant patent rights solely on the basis of the technical improvements resulting from such research. This paper highlights the significance of ethical practice in biomedical research, an issue that may influence the decision to grant patents on inventions. It explores the relation between morality, bioethics and patents from the perspective of the objectives of the patent system and current developments in the law on patents. The inclusion of the morality provision in patent law introduces a mechanism through which inventions derived from tainted research can be filtered at an early stage.
本文探讨了生物伦理对专利权利要求的影响。涉及人类生物材料的研究活动增加，以及急于将源自此类生物材料的发明商业化，有时可能导致不道德的研究行为。由此产生了一些问题，即专利法是否应关注导致发明的有问题研究，或者是否应仅基于此类研究带来的技术改进授予专利权。本文强调了生物医学研究中道德实践的重要性，这一问题可能会影响对发明授予专利的决定。它从专利制度的目标和专利法的当前发展角度探讨了道德、生物伦理与专利之间的关系。专利法中纳入道德条款引入了一种机制，通过该机制可以在早期阶段对源自问题研究的发明进行筛选。
