Innovation Center for Law and Technology, New York Law School, 185 West Broadway, New York, NY, USA.
Health Policy and Management, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, 722 W. 168th St., New York, NY, USA.
Br Med Bull. 2018 Jun 1;126(1):37-45. doi: 10.1093/bmb/ldy009.
Physicians have long worried about gene patents' potential to restrict their medical practices. Fortune and hindsight have proven these worries exaggerated both in the UK and elsewhere. Neither current nor future medical practices appear to be impinged by gene patents, although they may be subject to future intellectual property disputes.
Qualitative and quantitative (survey) studies of gene patents' effects on medical practice; recent developments in patent law.
Traditional gene patents do not appear to have restricted medical practice in the UK, although their effect elsewhere has been more nuanced.
Whether patents will restrict the spread of newer medical technologies is unresolved.
Continuing survey data on practitioners' views concerning patents' role in the distribution of newer technologies would be beneficial.
医生们长期以来一直担心基因专利可能会限制他们的医疗实践。无论是在英国还是其他地方，事实和后来的发展都证明了这些担忧是多余的。目前和未来的医疗实践似乎都没有受到基因专利的影响，尽管它们可能会受到未来知识产权纠纷的影响。
对基因专利对医疗实践影响的定性和定量（调查）研究；专利法的最新发展。
传统的基因专利似乎并没有限制英国的医疗实践，尽管它们在其他地方的影响更为复杂。
专利是否会限制较新医疗技术的传播尚未得到解决。
关于从业者如何看待专利在新技术分配中的作用的持续调查数据将是有益的。
