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Patents and Medical Research

Professor Richard Gold, Founding Director of the Centre for Intellectual Property Policy in McGill University

24-Feb-15 16:00

Patents and Medical Research

With patents littering the medical landscape in terms of medicine, technology and research - do they help or hinder progress? While they protect the work that researchers do, they can also stand in the way of free sharing of information. Professor Richard Gold, founding Director of the Centre for Intellectual Property Policy in McGill University shares his opinion.  


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