Critically analyse the justifications for patent protection.

Please answer the followin" rel="nofollow">ing questions. 1. Critically analyse the justifications for patent protection. 2. Critically discuss the potential impact of the unitary patent and the Unified Patent Court. 5. Critically discuss whether it is possible to obtain" rel="nofollow">in a patent on a sequence of DNA in" rel="nofollow">in (a) Europe and (b) the United States. WORD LIMIT 3,500 words (excludin" rel="nofollow">ing footnotes and bibliography). It is suggested that you allocate 1,000 – 1,200 words per question, to a maximum of 3,500 words in" rel="nofollow">in total. SOURCES Please also note the followin" rel="nofollow">ing: • You are expected to refer to academic sources such as books and academic articles in" rel="nofollow">in your answers. • You should also read and refer to primary materials, such as cases and legislation, where possible. Please do not rely on onlin" rel="nofollow">ine summaries of cases and legislation. • Be careful about usin" rel="nofollow">ing websites – these are not generally authoritative legal sources! Do you really trust an article onlin" rel="nofollow">ine when you don’t know who wrote it or whether it has been through any form of review? Does the article use proper references? Does the author have a particular bias or agenda? • Onlin" rel="nofollow">ine sources such as Wikipedia are not subject to any proper review and are therefore unreliable and should not be used. If you are unsure if a website is appropriate, please email me. • Some websites can be a useful source of in" rel="nofollow">information. Examples in" rel="nofollow">include the websites of Law Commissions, Government departments or the website of the European Union (www.europa.eu) . Some important busin" rel="nofollow">iness and consumer organisations also produce publications which are available on their websites, e.g. www.beuc.org REFERENCES Please also read the followin" rel="nofollow">ing guidelin" rel="nofollow">ines: • You must fully reference all your work and in" rel="nofollow">include a bibliography. • The bibliography should be located at the end of your work, and should be presented in" rel="nofollow">in a sensible manner. • You must give full citations for cases, articles and books. • Include page numbers if quotin" rel="nofollow">ing from a case, article or book. • If you are quotin" rel="nofollow">ing you MUST use quotation marks. • If you are usin" rel="nofollow">ing a large amount of in" rel="nofollow">information from one source (and do try not to do this!) then you need to in" rel="nofollow">individually reference each sentence or idea that comes from that source. It is not sufficient to put one reference at the end of a paragraph or page that has largely come from one source. Failure to adhere to this could be in" rel="nofollow">interpreted as weak academic practice or plagiarism. • Footnotes should be used for referencin" rel="nofollow">ing only, not for additional comments. • use citation style OSCOLA • Do not refer to databases such as westlaw as an “onlin" rel="nofollow">ine source”. Westlaw is a database which allows you to access other sources such as articles and cases. It is not a source in" rel="nofollow">in and of itself.