Physicians have long worried about gene patents' potential to restrict their medical practices. Fortune and hindsight have proven these worries exaggerated both in the UK and elsewhere. Neither current nor future medical practices appear to be impinged by gene patents, although they may be subject to future intellectual property disputes.
Qualitative and quantitative (survey) studies of gene patents' effects on medical practice; recent developments in patent law.
Traditional gene patents do not appear to have restricted medical practice in the UK, although their effect elsewhere has been more nuanced.
Whether patents will restrict the spread of newer medical technologies is unresolved.
Continuing survey data on practitioners' views concerning patents' role in the distribution of newer technologies would be beneficial.
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 13 June 2018.
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