Patzke+Hierarchy+Questions+2

For Version Two of this memo, I have no idea how I was able to format that stuff before.

Intangible Property ‘Rights’ are a means to ‘protect’ innovation and discovery for either a specific amount of time (patents) or indefinitely (trade secrets). Methods of licensing and notions of secrecy are combined to isolate new discoveries and innovations from ‘theft.’ Are these legal technologies barriers to ‘innovation’? Do they prevent the ‘free flow’ of information by regulated processes and adjudicating disputes? How do these barriers reinforce/change established practices, both in science and law? These questions are focused on patent law and genetic discovery.
 * __Research Questions and Analytic Goals__**:

A. How does the legal positioning and categorization of genetic discovery change genetic practices in the biotech industry and what are the far-reaching implications of this? university campuses? As university research is valued as a form of commodity, how has this affected the general tone of university-based research? What is the relationship between university research and private industry research?
 * 1) How has legal (influence) changed scientific research in the United States?
 * 2) Considering the role of intellectual property, how have legislative acts, influenced the development and purposes of research laboratories?
 * 3) i.Document analysis: What role has the Bayh-Doyl Act played in the development of
 * 1) These questions have been answered by Elizabeth Popp Berman in the book //Creating the Market University// (2012)

i. Interviews (with geneticists?) to get at: How does the ability to patent findings influence your work? How is your laboratory research patented?
 * 1) The case //Diamond v. Chakrabarty// established genes as patentable subject matter and set the stage for manufactured animals such as Harvard’s oncomouse. What role have these precedents played in the development of laboratory research/projects? Considering the role of adjudication, how have precedents in the courts established norms in the laboratory?
 * 1) How do you determine what ‘project’ to work on (or how are projects designs and implemented)
 * 2) How do you think about the ‘things’ you produce in your research?
 * 3) How do you describe the tone of your lab? Serious, professional, collaborative?
 * 4) What is your background training? How is ‘professional’ work in your lab different from the work you did as a student?
 * 5) How do you see your work ‘out in the world’? (Both imaginatively and ‘realistically’)

i. Interviews: How have institutions financially benefited from these research centers and what does future research focus?How has industry and government funding guided research goals? How are conflicts-of-interest managed?
 * 1) What are the political-economic, institutional, social and ethical dimensions of legal adjudication and regulation in genetics? (This question taken as-is from the template.)
 * 2) Administratively, how have scientific research institutions adjusted their focus to promote manufacture and innovation? Why do technology campuses and parks ‘spur innovation’? Are these sites educational?
 * 1) Administratively, how have scientific research institutions adjusted their focus to promote manufacture and innovation? Why do technology campuses and parks ‘spur innovation’? Are these sites educational?


 * 1) How is intellectual property (and property rights) mapped onto the notion of genetic data (or life patents) ?