February 23rd, 2022
PATENTING PERSONALIZED MEDICINE
Exploring the Intersection of Patent Law and Technology in Healthcare
Description
Personalized medicine (PM) aims to harness the power of medical discoveries to facilitate the research and discovery of targeted diagnostics and therapies. Through this, the hope is to increase the efficiency of healthcare systems by predicting and treating individual predispositions to diseases or conditions.
The development of these technologies heavily relies on new data processing mechanisms (to accelerate the speed of development) as well as properly defined proprietary rights (to provide proper incentives). However, the protection of patent rights lacks clarity when new digital innovations are introduced. The aim of this seminar is to explore the relationship between patent law and technology and how it applies to healthcare. In this webinar, we’ll explore the answers to the following questions:
Can algorithms be patented?
How can information technology advance healthcare?
What are some IP strategies that are useful for granting protection to new technological devices?
What bioethical challenges are presented when we apply new technology to healthcare?
Our Presenters
Host: Pablo Iannello
Pablo Iannello is the Chair of the Museo Social Law School, the director of the Law and tech Program at UADE, and a visiting professor at University of Dayton School of Law since 2013. He has also served as a visiting Fellow at the UNIDROIT Institute, in Rome throughout 2012. Professor Iannello's main areas of research include: Comparative Law, International Economic Law, IP, Law and Tech, Antitrust, Legal Theory and Law and Economics.