Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2008
Abstract
Drug discovery is stagnating. Government agencies, industry analysts, and industry scientists have all noted that, despite significant increases in pharmaceutical R&D funding, the production of fundamentally new drugs - particularly drugs that work on new biological pathways and proteins - remains disappointingly low. To some extent, pharmaceutical firms are already embracing the prescription of new, more collaborative R&D organizational models suggested by industry analysts. In this Article, we build on collaborative strategies that firms are already employing by proposing a novel public-private collaboration that would help move upstream academic research across the valley of death that separates upstream research from downstream drug candidates. By exchanging trade secrecy for contract-based collaboration, our proposal would both protect intellectual property rights and enable many more researchers to search for potential drug candidates.
Citation
Arti K. Rai et al., Pathways Across the Valley of Death: Novel Intellectual Property Strategies for Accelerated Drug Discovery, 8 Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law, and Ethics 53-89 (2008)
Library of Congress Subject Headings
Drugs, Patent medicines, Inventions
Included in
Antitrust and Trade Regulation Commons, Intellectual Property Law Commons, Medical Jurisprudence Commons
Available at: https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/faculty_scholarship/1630