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Situating brain regions among patent rights and moral risks

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What is the ethical value of awarding patent rights that implicate regions of the brain?

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J.I. is Canada Research Chair in Neuroethics. Z.H.K. was a Clinical Scholar for the Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research. Support for this work was made possible by CIHR grant # EOG-120257 (J.I.) and Alberta Innovates Health Solutions (Z.H.K.). D.R.-E. is a second-year law student at Dalhousie University. S.A.-R. is an expert patent researcher based in Calgary, Alberta. We thank Tania Bubela (University of Alberta) and Hendrik F.M. Van der Loos (University of British Columbia) for their expert advice.

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  1. Division of Neurology, Dylan Roskams-Edris and Judy Illes are at the National Core for Neuroethics, Faculty of Medicine, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada,

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  2. Stacey Anderson-Redick is at Article One Partners, New York, New York, USA,

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  3. Zelma H. Kiss is in the Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.,

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Roskams-Edris, D., Anderson-Redick, S., Kiss, Z. et al. Situating brain regions among patent rights and moral risks. Nat Biotechnol 35, 119–121 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.3782

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