'The United States law of patent eligibility regarding products of nature and natural laws from nitrogen fixing bacteria to genes' - Martin J Adelman: CIPIL Seminar

Martin J Adelman, Theodore and James Pedas Family Professor IP & Technology Law - George Washington University Law School, spoke on the topic of 'The United States law of patent eligibility regarding products of nature and natural laws from nitrogen fixing bacteria to genes' at a seminar on 23 November 2017. Professor Adelman is currently the Theodore and James Pedas Family Professor of Intellectual Property and Technology Law and Co-Director of the Dean Dinwoodey Center for Intellectual Property Studies at George Washington University Law School. Before a career in academia he practiced for several years as a patent attorney in the Detroit area. The current focus of his teaching and scholarship is in the field of patent law. He has written many law review articles on patent law and patent-antitrust law. From 1977 to 1988 he was one of the co-authors and from 1988-2013 the sole author of the continuously updated nine volume treatise on patent law entitled Patent Law Perspectives. He is a co-author of Cases and Materials on Patent Law and Global Issues in Patent Law. He has testified as an expert in patent law in about 190 patent infringement cases and has lectured at conferences around the world. In addition to his regular three patent law courses at GW, he teaches patent law on a regular basis at Munich Intellectual Property Law Center, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Bar-Ilan University and the University of Washington. For more information see the CIPIL website at http://www.cipil.law.cam.ac.uk