Harris Beach attorney Laura W. Smalley, who focuses her practice on protecting and enforcing clients’ intellectual property rights, recently moderated a panel at IPWatchdog.com’s Life Sciences Masters Series on the topic of patent eligibility. During the panel, titled Patent Eligibility and the Life Sciences Industry–What Next?, speakers and audience members discussed the impact of section 101 jurisprudence on innovation in the life sciences industry. Do the limits on what is patent-eligible subject matter created by the courts strike the proper balance, or do unpredictable court decisions harm investment and research in the life sciences?

Read more about the discussion in Laura’s summary article for IPWatchdog.com, or download a replay of the panel.