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Kontrowersje związane z moralnym uzasadnieniem ochrony patentowej w biotechnologii / Controversies over the Moral Justification for Patent Protection in Biotechnology

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  • Adam Karbowski

    (Warsaw School of Economics , Poland)

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The following paper presents and discusses controversies over the moral justification for patent protection in biotechnology. Special emphasis was put on the controversy over the moral justification for patent protection of stem cells. By referring to arguments of (i) human dignity and (ii) patentability criteria, the moral justifiability of patent protection of stem cells was put in serious doubt. In a further section of the paper, the moral problems linked to patent protection in biotechnology were shown in a broader political and economic view. In that section of the paper, the preliminary concept of solving some of the discussed problems was sketched out (i.e. the introduction of decision criteria based on the system of values shared by the members of a given society).

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  • Adam Karbowski, 2017. "Kontrowersje związane z moralnym uzasadnieniem ochrony patentowej w biotechnologii / Controversies over the Moral Justification for Patent Protection in Biotechnology," Annales. Ethics in Economic Life, University of Lodz, Faculty of Economics and Sociology, vol. 20(1), pages 83-94, February.
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