{"id":3201,"date":"2018-03-27T10:31:33","date_gmt":"2018-03-27T14:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/?p=3201"},"modified":"2018-03-27T10:31:33","modified_gmt":"2018-03-27T14:31:33","slug":"biotech-entrepreneurship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/2018\/03\/27\/biotech-entrepreneurship\/","title":{"rendered":"Biotech Entrepreneurship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although prior to the\u00a0Myriad Genetics case, this short <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/lorikozlowski\/2012\/03\/23\/biotech-the-high-stakes-table-of-entrepreneurship\/#26a0ce525c6c\">piece<\/a> talks about the high risks involved with\u00a0entrepreneurship in the field of biotechnology. The high investment and lack of predictability of the outcome of the research make it difficult for new ventures in this field.<\/p>\n<p>The Myriad Genetics ruling made me think how much more difficult it can be for companies to keep up doing research related to human DNA without the insurance that it will be patent protected. This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/nbt.3953\">article<\/a> shows how unpredictable\u00a0it has been to bring a DNA patent claim before the USPTO.<\/p>\n<p>At least for Myriad, the Supreme Court decision does not seem to have affected its financial health, according to its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2017\/11\/07\/globe-newswire-myriad-genetics-reports-fiscal-first-quarter-2018-financial-results.html\">latest fiscal report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although prior to the\u00a0Myriad Genetics case, this short piece talks about the high risks involved with\u00a0entrepreneurship in the field of biotechnology. The high investment and lack of predictability of the outcome of the research make it difficult for new ventures &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/2018\/03\/27\/biotech-entrepreneurship\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2882,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2882"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3202,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3201\/revisions\/3202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}