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The meeting observations refers to the 5th International Conference on Bioethics: The Ethics of Intellectual Property Rights and Patents, held in Warsaw, Poland on 23–24 April, 2004.
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Spier, R.E. Observations on a meeting on the ethics of intellectual property rights and patents. SCI ENG ETHICS 11, 151–158 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-005-0066-4
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