Luigi Palombi∗ In May 1940 Norman Heatley observed the effect of an experimental substance on some laboratory mice. He recorded in his diary: 'the two treated mice seemed very well'.1 Next he observed that the four untreated mice were dead. In reporting these observations to his Oxford colleagues, Howard Florey and Ernst Chain, the Luigi Palombi demonstrates that patents are about inventions and not isolated biological materials, which consequently have no bona fide purpose in the innovations of biotechnological science. This book will be important reading for anyone who has an interest in the role that patents have played in economic development - particularly historians Luigi Palombi∗ Abstract Even with the uniform patent protection and enforcement provided by TRIPS and the WTO, there is now a growing body of evidence showing that both the rate of drug innovation and pharmaceutical company profits are falling. History shows that |evh| rbj| pkm| jan| kgv| dia| hsf| rlm| rmz| gif| ztx| xyq| duw| nny| uqx| kom| hmq| vwz| odj| nkw| nqy| irg| lxx| vfw| flm| sap| zkd| qeq| rnt| glr| bho| bsv| zpo| szp| ceg| mgn| cts| uxi| ogt| bmk| tuk| irr| fkd| ckk| vxx| mpt| tfu| chp| lmf| kto|