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PDFLaw, ethics and medicine
Are patents for methods of medical treatment contrary to the ordre public and morality or “generally inconvenient”?
- Correspondence to: O Mitnovetski Allens Arthur Robinson, Stock Exchange Centre, 530 Collins Street, Melbourne Vic 3000, Australia; Oksana.Mitnovetskiaar.com.au
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Are patents for methods of medical treatment contrary to the ordre public and morality or “generally inconvenient”?
Publication history
- Received June 13, 2002
- Accepted September 26, 2002
- Revised September 11, 2002
- First published October 5, 2004.
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April 27, 2016
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Copyright 2004 by the Journal of Medical Ethics
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