A series of lectures held by prominent Italian scholars in order to canvass some of the most debated issues of the law of civil liability, within the courses of civil law held by Giovanni Pascuzzi, Roberto Caso and Umberto Izzo in the academic year 2013-14.
Roberto Caso and Federica Giovanella organize a seminar on Copyright, Technological Evolution and Balancing of Interests.
December 6th, 2013 - Faculty of Law, University of Trento. Full program (in Italian) available here.
In occasione della tavola rotonda sarà presentato alla presenza degli autori il volume di Matteo Ferrari e Umberto Izzo, Diritto alimentare comparato. Regole del cibo e ruolo della tecnologia, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2012/During the roundtable it will be presented with the participation of its Authors the book Comparative Food Law. Food Regulation and Role of Technology, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2012, by Matteo Ferrari and Umberto Izzo.
The US Supreme Court has recently written the final chapter of the so-called "Myriad trilogy". The issue at stake was the patentatibility of the sequence of BRCA-1 and BRCA-2, two human caretaker genes linked to breast and ovarian cancer. The Court unanimously ruled that DNA as such is a product of nature and, as a consequence, it is not patent eligible, while the cDNA (i.e. the synthesized DNA deprived of the segment that do not code for proteins) is a patentable subject's matter.
See the full decision Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc.