What are the moral obligations of US patent law?
Should the USPTO deny patents that rely on data from unethical experiments on human subjects, including those that are too dangerous and those conducted without adequate consent?
And if patents can provide potential evidence of legal violations, should regulators require more extensive disclosures that enable them to identify and act on that evidence?
Professor Freilich’s “Unethical Experiments in Patents” and Professor Simon’s “Inadvertent Patent Signals” explore these questions and more.
Join us for presentations and discussion at the intersection of intellectual property and social justice.
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