Table 1 Benefits and negative impacts associated with gene patents
From: Patenting human genes: Chinese academic articles’ portrayal of gene patents
Benefits | Mentioned times |
• Promoting inventions | 21 |
• Huge market profits | 19 |
• Protecting inventors | 14 |
• Becoming a dominant role in the gene-related industry | 11 |
• Possessing genetic resources | 4 |
Negative impacts | |
• Impeding gene-related research and development | 20 |
• Monopolizing genetic testing services | 17 |
• Impeding access to healthcare | 11 |
• Depriving the rights of providers of human genetic resources | 11 |
• Impacting human being’s autonomy, privacy, dignity, and opposing the social justice | 6 |
• Violating public policy and morality | 5 |
• Robbing the genetic resources of developing countries | 4 |
• Violating the non-discrimination principle in WTO | 1 |
• Impacting international collaboration | 1 |