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November 18, 2005

Running Time: 00:55:30
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Intellectual property restrictions rarely impose burdens on genomic and proteomic research, but there are reasons to be apprehensive about their future impact on advances in this field, says a new report from the National Research Council. Policy-makers should take steps to prevent the increasingly complex web of intellectual property protections from getting in the way of potential biomedical breakthroughs.

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Speakers:
Shirley Tilghman, president, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J. and Roderick McKelvie, partner, Covington & Burling, Washington, D.C.
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