Intellectual Property and Patents

Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: A chemical engineering post-doc gets advice from a graduate student that significantly improves an important presentation. The graduate student is listed only in acknowledgements at the end. Is that appropriate?...
Year: 1997
URL: http://www.onlineethics.org/Resources/Cases/jackfry.aspx

Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: This case illustrates a commonly blurred area between the right to ownership of one's ideas and the right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention....
Year: 1998
URL: http://www.onlineethics.org/Resources/Cases/technology.aspx

Authors: Lockheed Martin Corporation
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: While working for your company, you invent a device that has a potential for making you wealthy. You used the company's lab and test facilities but did the work on your own time. What do you do with your invention? (Case from the Gr...
Year: 1992
URL: http://www.onlineethics.org/Resources/Cases/Case16.aspx

Authors: Unger, Stephen H.
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: A fictionalized case about an employee who was discharged for bringing attention to the company practice of using pirated software....
Year: 1999
URL: http://www.onlineethics.org/Resources/Cases/OthersSoftware.aspx

Authors: Coleman, Glenn
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: This scenario details a case in which propriatary issues arise when employees are encouraged to develop ideas for new businesses while working with the company....
Year: 2006
URL: http://www.onlineethics.org/Resources/Cases/entrepreneur.aspx

Authors: National Academy of Engineering, Online Ethics Center
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: This is an annotated list of links to articles, legal documents, and newsgroup postings pertaining to the software piracy case of David LaMacchia, an MIT student who allegedly used university hardware to distribute commercial softwa...
Year: 2006
URL: http://www.onlineethics.org/Resources/Cases/lamindex.aspx

Authors: Whitbeck, Caroline
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: A scenario meant to stimulate discussion about how to share intellectual property in order to stimulate research....
Year: 2006
URL: http://www.onlineethics.org/Resources/Cases/seques.aspx

Authors: Whitbeck, Caroline
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: A scenario meant to stimulate discussion about ways of responding to a suggestion from a researcher who has a reputation of freely taking others' ideas....
Year: 2006
URL: http://www.onlineethics.org/Resources/Cases/release.aspx

Authors: Ng, Chin Yee
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: A scenario dealing with the ownership of intellectual property....
Year: 2006
URL: http://www.onlineethics.org/Resources/Cases/prop.aspx

Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: A scenario that covers ethical issues that arise when a student wants to use a professors data in a manuscript....
Year: 2006
URL: http://www.onlineethics.org/Resources/Cases/profdata.aspx

Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: A scenario that covers ethical issues that arise when more than one person contributes directly to an invention....
Year: 2006
URL: http://www.onlineethics.org/Resources/Cases/faircredit.aspx

Authors: Whitbeck, Caroline
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: A scenario meant to stimulate discussion about ways of responding to a suggestion from a researcher who has a reputation of freely taking others' ideas....
Year: 2006
URL: http://www.onlineethics.org/Resources/Cases/exchange.aspx

Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: A scenario meant to stimulate discussion about data collaboration between labs and disciplines....
Year: 2006
URL: http://www.onlineethics.org/Resources/Cases/datacolab.aspx

Authors: Whitbeck, Caroline ; Koppelman, Elysa
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: A scenario about a researcher who, after reviewing a journal article, realizes that his collaborative project is fruitless....
Year: 2006
URL: http://www.onlineethics.org/Resources/Cases/fruitl.aspx

Authors: Stott, Mike ; Valentine, Jill
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Nature Reviews Drug Discovery
Abstract: In this article the authors seek to evaluate the impact of gene patenting objectively by examining, in overall terms, whether there has been a net cost or benefit to medical research from gene patenting. ...
Year: 2004
DOI: 10.1038/nrd1348

Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: Cells from a dying patient are used to create a multi-billion-dollar drug....
Year: 2000
URL: http://www.onlineethics.org/Resources/Cases/LastRites.aspx

Authors: Swain, M. S. ; Marusyk, R. W.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Proposes a legal structure to deal with the issues involving human tissue. Property rights and the body; Legal precedents; DNA in the legal structure....
Year: 1990

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Authors: Nelkin, Dorothy ; Andrews, Lori
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Presents information on the commercialization of body tissue, with the increasing biotechnology techniques. Reference to the catalogue from the American Tissue Culture Catalogue organization; Information on the commercial value of b...
Year: 1998

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Authors: Johnston, Josephine ; Wasunna, Angela A.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: The article discusses issues related to securing patents for inventions involving genes and stem cells and for drugs for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infections. Ethical concerns have been raised over asserting ownership over ...
Year: 2007
DOI: 10.1353/hcr.2007.0006

Authors: Brock, Dan W.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Comments on ethical issues raised by the justification offered by Genentech Inc. for the drug price increase. Reason commonly cited by pharmaceutical companies for drug price increases; Factors considered by Genentech Inc. in pricin...
Year: 2006
DOI: 10.1353/hcr.2006.0036

Authors: Brody, Baruch
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Focuses on bioethics issues concerning the pricing of drugs and other technological innovations funded by public dollars. Background on technology transfer; Reasonable prices for the products of technology transfer; Provision of pub...
Year: 1996

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Authors: Annas, G. J.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Addresses the issues raised in the case of John Moore, and his physician's development of a new cell line from Moore's diseased spleen. Law suit; Ownership interest; The dissenting opinions; Protecting patients; Informed consent; Le...
Year: 1990

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Authors: Hanson, Mark J.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Explores the religious, biotechnological and legal issues in the debate over gene patenting in the United States. Supreme Court ruling that a genetically engineered micro-organism was a patentable subject matter; Conceptions of DNA,...
Year: 1997

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Authors: Calvert, Jane
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: New Genetics & Society
Abstract: This paper analyses the ways in which genomic knowledge is portrayed as useful knowledge in gene patenting in order to fulfil the 'utility '/'industrial applicability' requirement for patentability. It gives examples of utility clai...
Year: 2004
DOI: 10.1080/1463677042000305066

Authors: Caulfield, Timothy ; Cook-Deegan, Robert M. ; Kieff, F. Scott ; Walsh, John P.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Nature Biotechnology
Abstract: The article discusses the gene patenting controversies which drew numerous scrutinies from the academic and policy literature. The author inferred that a large number of gene patents and their rightful owners will make it hard to as...
Year: 2006
DOI: 10.1038/nbt0906-1091