Doctors Discover Copyright Law: Cognitive Screening Test Killed Over Infringement Claims (Techdirt)
We’ve certainly talked about how ridiculous patents have gotten in the way of
health care professionals and doctors providing the best care they can. Beyond
basic things like gene patents, the idea that diagnostic tests are patentable
is somewhat horrifying for anyone with any sense of decency when it comes to
trying to keep people healthy. But, apparently the issue doesn’t stop there,
and the medical community is suddenly grappling with some doctors using
aggressive copyright enforcement to block _competing_ diagnostic tests from
being available.
The story comes from Dr. John C. Newman and lawyer Robin Feldman in the
respected New England Journal of Medicine, where they recount the story of the
Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE). A simple 30-item screening test that was
first published in 1975 basically became a defacto standard that was used (and
published!) widely. As the authors note, it was available in textbooks, pocket
guides and websites — and “memorized by countless residents and medical
students.” All in all, it sounds like a useful tool that was being put to good
use. But then, decades after it was created, the authors of the diagnostic
test discovered copyright. And that’s when the trouble …
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