Our Patent System and Health Care Information Technology: Valuable Incentive or Impediment to Innovation?

26 Pages Posted: 30 Mar 2016

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Gary Montle

Patterson Intellectual Property Law PC

Ryan Levy

Patterson Intellectual Property Law PC

Margaret Rowland

Patterson Intellectual Property Law PC

Date Written: 2015

Abstract

Patentable inventions have often been transformative, but the pace of such innovation has changed exponentially in the last thirty years. The patent law still seeks to reward ingenuity and nowhere should this maxim be truer than in the area of health information technology. But the pace and scope of changes in that arena have made rewarding that ingenuity with a patent increasingly difficult. The courts have struggled to apply patent laws to technology that is new and novel to a fault. This Article seeks to address how it is possible to continue to reward ingenuity in a field where progress will save not just money but lives.

Keywords: patent law, health care, innovation, technology

Suggested Citation

Montle, Gary and Levy, Ryan and Rowland, Margaret, Our Patent System and Health Care Information Technology: Valuable Incentive or Impediment to Innovation? (2015). 2 Belmont Law Review 93 (2015), Belmont University College of Law Research Paper No. 2015-13, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2756035

Gary Montle (Contact Author)

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Ryan Levy

Patterson Intellectual Property Law PC ( email )

1600 Division St # 500
Nashville, TN 37203
United States

Margaret Rowland

Patterson Intellectual Property Law PC ( email )

1600 Division St # 500
Nashville, TN 37203
United States

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