CIPIL Intellectual Property Seminar: 'Do we need patents for Embryonic Stem Cells?'

Speaker: Justin Turner QC

Room G24, Faculty of Law

Do patents matter? Stem cell science is, to a greater or lesser extent, to be denied patent protection. Apparently it is unethical, notwithstanding that it has been funded by national governments and the Commission. The reasons for this (which do not always appear in the judgments) will be considered. Unusually for IP, this talk will encompass political intrigue, the machinations of the Catholic church and, in a manner of speaking, sex.

Justin Turner QC is a barrister who specialises in IP. He represented WARF before the Enlarged Board of Appeal of the EPO in the leading case on stem cell patents and sat on GTAC, a government advisory committee on stem cell research.