Patent pools and diagnostic testing.

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Published in Trends Biotechnol on January 27, 2006

Authors

Birgit Verbeure1, Esther van Zimmeren, Gert Matthijs, Geertrui Van Overwalle

Author Affiliations

1: Centre for Intellectual Property Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Leuven, Belgium. birgit.verbeure@law.kuleuven.be

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