Bridging the gap between bioethics and patent law
PatentsinHumans is a five-year interdisciplinary project funded by a European Research Council (ERC) Starting grant led by Professor Aisling McMahon, School of Law and Criminology, Maynooth University.
The five main types of patentable technologies related to the human body which will be examined during this project include:
Patentable technologies which treat the body
e.g. medicines, elements of vaccines etc
Patentable technologies which act on the body
e.g. elements of diagnostic tests
Patentable technologies that are in the body
e.g. isolated human genes
Patentable technologies that can be integrated with the body
e.g. elements of medical devices, prosthetics etc.
Patentable technologies that are akin to the human body or which can modify the body
e.g. neuro-technologies, gene editing techniques etc.
To learn more about the PatentsInHumans Project, please watch this short video from Principal Investigator, Professor Aisling McMahon.
Latest News:
PatentsInHumans Team publish Report of First International PatentsInHumans Workshop
The PatentsInHumans team are delighted to publish the Report of the First International...
Prof Aisling McMahon and Dr Opeyemi Kolawole deliver paper on right to repair and medical devices at international EPIP conference, Pisa
On 11th September, Prof Aisling McMahon (PI PatentsInHumans) and Dr Opeyemi Kolawole presented a...
PatentsInHuman Project is Recruiting!
The PatentsInHumans team is delighted to announce that it is currently recruiting two new...
Prof Aisling McMahon delivers an invited lecture at the World Intellectual Property Organization Summer School
On 10th July, Prof Aisling McMahon delivered an invited lecture at the World Intellectual Property...
Prof Aisling McMahon speaks at the ‘International Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property’ (ATRIP) Conference, LUISS University, Rome.
On 1st July 2024, Prof Aisling McMahon (PI PatentsInHumans) presented a paper developed as part...
Prof Aisling McMahon discusses research on patents and governance of health at ISHTIP Conference, Boston University.
On 26th June 2024, Professor Aisling McMahon (PI PatentsInHumans) discussed her emerging work...
Second PatentsInHumans Infographic
We are delighted to launch the second infographic of the ERC funded PatentsInHumans project. We...
Professor Aisling McMahon invited to speak at international symposium on ‘The Future of Human Reproduction’.
Professor Aisling McMahon was recently invited to participate in and deliver a paper at an...
Dr. Opeyemi Kolowole publishes an Ideas in ALL Blog: Competition Law Enforcement in the EU and Access to Health Technologies: An Overview of the EU 2024 Competition Law Report on Pharmaceuticals and Medical Technologies – Update on Competition Enforcement in the Pharmaceutical Sector (2018-2022)
On 24 May 2023, the Ideas in ALL Blog published a blog post by Dr Opeyemi Kolawole, a postdoctoral...
Professor Aisling McMahon delivered invited research seminar on patents, bioethical considerations and embryo models at ‘Law and Futures’ Seminar Series, Newcastle University
On 22nd May 2024, Professor Aisling McMahon gave an invited research seminar on her research on...