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Highlights
from the bio-innovation conference
Maine Science and Technology Foundation
July 15, 2002
SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine – "In the United States alone
32 percent of U.S. patents actually are plagiarized.
Not plagiarized very creatively either," asserted Dr.
David Martin at a recent conference sponsored by the
Technology Law Center of the University of Maine School
of Law. Arguing that the U.S. patent system is "broken
beyond immediate repair," Martin and other panelists
debated the merits of alternatives such as compulsory
drug licenses. Their discussion was one of five provocative
sessions featured during the second day of the conference.
In other sessions Dr. Greg Koski, the nation's "ethics
enforcer" at the U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services, focused on human clinical trials, a crucial
stage in winning drug approval. Prof. James O'Reilly
discussed strategies for winning drug approval from
the FDA, while Attorney Linda Horton discussed international
efforts to harmonize clinical trials and pharmaceutical
standards between the FDA and foreign regulatory agencies.
Read more about the highlights of the conference below.
Bio-Innovation:
Strategies for Success
University of Maine School of Law Technology Law Center
June 20-21, 2002
DAY
TWO PRESENTATIONS
Compulsory
Drug Licenses and Prior Art: Is the Patent System Broken?
Dr.
David Martin, Ph.D., M-CAM Inc., Charlottesville, VA
Prof.
Craig Jepson, Franklin Pierce Law Center, Concord, NH
Moderator:
Prof. Tom Ward, University of Maine Law School, Portland,
ME
Dr.
Greg Koski, Ph.D., Director, Office for Human Research
Protections, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services,
Washington, DC
Drug
Approval Strategies and Pitfalls in the U.S. and Abroad
Prof.
James O'Reilly, Esq., University of Cincinnati College
of Law, Cincinnati, OH
Linda
Horton, Esq., Hogan & Hartson LLP, Washington, DC
Moderator:
Prof. William Murphy, Franklin Pierce Law Center, Concord,
NH
University-Industry
Collaboration, Biotechnology Licensing and Technology
Transfer
David
Einhorn, Esq., The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME
Irene
Abrams, MIT Technology Licensing Office, Cambridge,
MA
Alfred
"Buz" Brown, Ph.D., Yale School of Medicine Office of
Cooperative Research, New Haven, CT
Moderator:
William Worden, Esq., Pierce Atwood, Portland, ME
Issues
in Bioethics: Gene Patents, Human Cloning and Stem Cell
Research
Dr.
Julien Murphy, Ph.D., University of Southern Maine Bioethics
Project, Portland, ME
Dr.
Karen Rasmussen, Ph.D., Maine Center for Cancer Medicine,
Scarborough, ME
Moderator:
Robert Stier, Esq., Pierce Atwood, Portland, ME
DAY
ONE PRESENTATIONS
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