Big Data and Intellectual Property Rights in the Health and Life Sciences

2018 ◽  
pp. 311-323 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timo Minssen ◽  
Justin Pierce
Author(s):  
Burkhard Schafer

The paper explores whether legal and ethical concepts that have been used to protect the natural environment can also be leveraged to protect the ‘infosphere’, a neologism used by Luciano Floridi to characterize the totality of the informational environment. We focus, in particular, on the interaction between allocation of (intellectual) property rights and ‘communication duties’, in particular, data breach notification duties. This article is part of the themed issue ‘The ethical impact of data science’.


2004 ◽  
Vol 26 (6) ◽  
pp. 21-24
Author(s):  
Niall Head-Rapson

With the estimated value of the life sciences and biotechnology market worldwide estimated to reach over 2000 billion (£1.330 billion, US$206 billion) by 2010 (excluding any application relating to agriculture), protecting new ideas or discoveries legally would appear to be a sound strategy for making the most of your discovery.


Author(s):  
Vijay Laxmi ◽  
Mary Shobha Rani Inala

Intellectual property rights (IPRs) denote distinct types of conceptions of the mind for which property rights are documented. Basic and clinical scientists at research institutions often make ideas that have health benefits if developed and applied to the improvement of human wellbeing. Therefore, learning the basics of intellectual property protection and obtaining professional guidance in its management avoids such losses with a minimal burden of confidentiality on the investigator by using any of the mechanisms (patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, and know-how agreements). The probability of scientific findings becoming accessible for public benefit is low without suitable intellectual property protection. This reality is particularly true in the life sciences and biotechnology arenas comparative to other areas of science, and hence, it is a prerequisite to know about intellectual property rights and their significance for better development.


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