extracted from their body?
Introduction
One of the toughest and not resolved legal and ethical issues in the field of patent law is thought to be the establishment of ‘the optimal means of distribution among biomedical researchers and their research participants of any rights in commercial products and revenues derived from human tissue’ (Gitter p.261). In consists in the fact whether a patient is granted a property right to a cell-line, particularly tissue, extracted from his body. Tissue itself is defined as ‘a collection of cells of similar structure organized to carry out one or more particular functions’ (Gitter p. ...