Intellectual Property and Patents

Authors: Baase, Sara
Publication Type: Book
Abstract: This book provides a comprehensive view of the ethical issues that have become important in this age of information, including computers and privacy, censorship on the internet, issues of intellectual property and intellectual freed...
Year: 2008

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Authors: Albin, Ramona C.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science & Engineering Ethics
Abstract: The framers of the U.S. Constitution believed that intellectual property rights were crucial to scientific advancement. Yet, the framers also recognized the need to balance innovation, privatization, and public use. The courts' expa...
Year: 2010
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-010-9234-2

Authors: Cox-White, Becky ; Connolly, Peggy ; Englehardt, Elaine ; Hinman, Lawrence ; Robert Ladenson ; Leever, Martin
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: A number of health care facilities has entered into a partnership with Ardais Corporation, a biotechnology company, to create a tissue bank to provide genetic researchers with disease-specific tissues and detailed patient informatio...
Year: 2001
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Donation%20of%20Tissue%20Samples.pdf

Authors: Geller, Lisa
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science & Engineering Ethics
Abstract: Intellectual property can be an important asset for academic institutions. Good data management practices are important for capture, development and protection of intellectual property assets, and are especially important when resea...
Year: 2010
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-010-9240-4

Publication Type: Guidelines & Regulations
Abstract: This is a short list of guidelines put out by Harvard University's Office of Technology Development that outlines how to keep records in research in order to insure the retention of maximum patent rights....
Year: 2010
URL: http://www.techtransfer.harvard.edu/inventions/ip/patents/recordkeeping/

Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: This case explores the challenged faced by developing countries for providing citizens access to HIV medications when the cost of these treatments are extremely high in relation to individual incomes, governmental health budgets, an...
Year: 2010
URL: http://www.umass.edu/sts/ethics/hiv.html

Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: Near the end of data collection for her dissertation, a graduate student is informed of restrictions on publication by the funder of her project....
Year: 1999
URL: http://www.onlineethics.org/cms/6000.aspx

Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: The case describes competition for patents among nuclear physicists who have a traditon of collaboration....
Year: 1999
URL: http://www.onlineethics.org/cms/6214.aspx

Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: Students in an advanced computer programming class develop a program that automates the enrollment process for a private school in the area. At the end of the course, the students who developed the best program deny the professor th...
Year: 2010
URL: http://www.onlineethics.org/Resources/Cases/IntelProperty.aspx

Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: This is a series of articles published by the Ethics Office at Texas Instruments Corporation in the company newsletter TNEWS. This collection of articles discusses issues of dealing with sensitive information when communicating with...
Year: 2006
URL: http://www.onlineethics.org/cms/7620.aspx

Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: This is a series of articles published by the Ethics Office at Texas Instruments Corporation in the company newsletter TNEWS. This collection of article discusses issues of intellectual property, copyright, and patents that often co...
Year: 2006
URL: http://www.onlineethics.org/Resources/Cases/copy.aspx

Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: This is a series of articles published by the Ethics Office at Texas Instruments Corporation in the company newsletter TNEWS. These articles discuss ethical issues raised by the practice of competitive benchmarking, and acceptable a...
Year: 2006
URL: http://www.onlineethics.org/Resources/Cases/benchmarking.aspx

Authors: Moores, Trevor ; Dhillon, Gurpreet
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Communications of the ACM
Abstract: Software piracy accounts for billions of dollars in lost sales. But for many nations, U.S. price tags make legal ownership impossible. The main problem areas include Eastern Europe, Latin America and Asia-Pacific region, while the p...
Year: 2000
DOI: 10.1145/355112.355129

Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Nature
Abstract: Offers suggestions to solve the problem of giving credit for unpublished data. Problems caused in the genome-sequencing community by posting unpublished data in publicly accessible databases; Importance of licensing agreements, to p...
Year: 2001

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Authors: Nelkin, Dorothy
Publication Type: Book
Secondary Title: AAAS series on issues in science and technology; Variation: AAAS series on issues in science and technology.
Abstract: The controversial question of who controls research stands at the center of a growing number of legal and administrative disputes which raise critical issues of professional sovereignty, scientific secrecy, and proprietary rights. A...
Year: 1984

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Authors: Harris, Charles E. ; Pritchard, Michael S. ; Rabins, Michael J.
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: At his previous job at a small computer firm specializing in developing software for management tasks, Derek was the primary contributor in designing an innovative software system for customer services. His former employer never ask...
Year: 2000
URL: http://www.bsyse.wsu.edu/pitts/be120/Handouts/cases/case15.htm

Authors: Sterckx, Sigrid
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science & Engineering Ethics
Abstract: After illustrating the major rise of academic patenting and licensing in the US and Europe and commenting on the increasing trend of 'upstream' patenting and the focus on exclusive as opposed to non-exclusive licences, this paper di...
Year: 2011
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-009-9168-8

Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: This is a series of articles published by the Ethics Office at Texas Instruments Corporation in the company newsletter TNEWS. This series discusses issues of software piracy, copyright laws, and when the legal copying of software is...
Year: 2006
URL: http://www.onlineethics.org/cms/4741.aspx

Authors: Marshall, Eliot
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science
Abstract: Discusses two cases of students filing law suits against professors alleging misappropriation of research. Antonia Demas, an education researcher at Cornell University, who claims that David Levitsky, a member of her thesis committe...
Year: 1999
DOI: 10.1126/science.284.5414.562

Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: When an engineering submits a project proposal to a city council including technical information and data that the council had requested, a staff member of the council makes this proposal available to another engineer who uses it to...
Year: 2006
URL: http://www.onlineethics.org/Resources/Cases/ec83-3.aspx

Authors: Abelson, Hal ; Fischer, Mike ; Weitzner, Danny ; Perelman, Les ; Unger, Don
Publication Type: Syllabi
Abstract: This is the course webpage for a class taught jointly at Harvard Law School and MIT. Instructors include Abelson, Fischer and others. Includes a syllabus, very complete notes on in-class discussions, assignments, student papers, the...
Year: 2010
URL: http://www.onlineethics.org/Resources/TeachingTools/20354/21482.aspx

Authors: Salomon, Jean-Jacques
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Accountability in Research: Policies & Quality Assurance
Abstract: Discusses the tradeoff between freedom and national security in the United States. Passage of the Freedom of Information Act; Link between transparency and the legitimacy of institutions; Public participation; Expertise and the redi...
Year: 1997
DOI: 10.1080/08989629708573903

Authors: Dunning, Rebecca ; Kenan Institute for Ethics, Duke University
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: This case uses the controversial partnership linking the University of California-Berkeley’s College of Natural Resources and agribusiness giant Novartis to examine the ongoing tensions between higher education’s public mission and ...
Year: 2009
URL: http://www.duke.edu/web/kenanethics/CaseStudies/BerkeleyNovartis.pdf

Authors: Kevles, Daniel J.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Accountability in Research: Policies & Quality Assurance
Abstract: Discusses the history of tensions over principles and property rights between universities and businesses participating in research projects. Conflicts created by commercialization; Disputes arising from university efforts to capita...
Year: 2001
DOI: 1080/08989620108573982

Authors: Schachter, Madeleine ; Fins, Joseph J.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Accountability in Research: Policies & Quality Assurance
Abstract: Focuses on the ethical tensions through the prism of principles of intellectual property and patent law in biochemical research. Development od neurosurgical devices; Importance of avoiding broad and sweeping generalizations about t...
Year: 2001
DOI: 10.1080/08989620108573975