[Ip-health] European Genetics Society: For Patent Pools and Compulsory Licensing

[robert weissman]

Very interesting recommendations from the European Society of Human
Genetics on "*Patenting and licensing in genetic testing: ethical, legal
and social issues
<http://www.nature.com/ejhg/journal/v16/n1s/index.html>*" are available
here:

http://www.nature.com/ejhg/journal/v16/n1s/full/5201929a.html

http://www.eshg.org/

Two excerpts:

* "The ESHG shares the viewpoint that compulsory licences serve a
purpose in keeping patentees from exerting extreme monopoly rights."

* "The patent pool/clearinghouse model should be encouraged by
governments, by the European institutions and the OECD."