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Postgraduate study in Laws:

Master of Laws (LLM), Postgraduate Diploma and Postgraduate Certificate

Course outline (date of availability to be confirmed)

Intellectual property and medicine
Section A: Intellectual property of medicine and its sources
· Categories of intellectual property relevant to medicine
· International framework and history of intellectual property relevant to medicine
· Categories of intellectual property relevant to medicine
· European and National systems (UK and designated jurisdictions)
· Applications of intellectual property in medical and pharmaceutical industries
Section B: Access to medicines
· Overview of the issues and history of the campaign
· Human right to health and the ethics of patents
· TRIPS Agreement
· Doha Development Round (Ministerial Declaration; Declaration on TRIPS and Public Health; Decision on Paragraph 6)
· Paragraph 6 System
Section C: Patents and life forms
· Legal and socio-legal concept of life form
· Ethical considerations and exceptions
· Medical biotechnologies
· International, European and designated domestic frameworks (including European Biotechnology Directive)
· Genes and gene sequences
· Cloning
· Germ-line modification technology
· Embryos
Section D: Property in the person
· Medical and genetic privacy and intellectual property
· Genetic privacy
· Genetic sampling and collection; genomic libraries and databases
· Traditional medicine and genetic resources
Sequence:
The sections must be attempted in order.
Textbook:
Johanna Gibson, Intellectual Property and Medicine: Current Debates (London: Ashgate,2009), ISBN: 0754672182