Graham Dutfield: As drugs become more precise, so needs the patent system
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We speak to Graham Dutfield, professor of International Governance and author of That High Design of Purest Gold on the evolution of IP regulation in Pharma and how it could be transformed in the future.
Patents are a historic tool, but have undergone an evolution. Patents started out in the 1470’s in Venice, and as an example Christoffer Columbus had a patent to explore the new world. Only in the late 18th century did patents become associated with exclusive rights to exploit an invention in return for disclosing the recipe for it.
The purpose of patents is to incentivise…
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