Recent Highlights Include:

• Jorge L. Contreras, Unpacking Open Source Bio, 100 IndianaJ. (2025, forthcoming)
• Leslie E. Wolf, Natalie Ram, Jorge L. Contreras, Laura M. Beskow, Certificates of confidentiality: privileging research data, 11(1) L. & Biosciences https://doi.org/10.1093/jlb/lsae003 (2024)
• Holly Fernandez Lynch, Rena M. Conti, Jorge L. Contreras, Industry Price Guarantees for Publicly Funded Medicines: Learning from Project NextGen for Pandemics and Beyond, 11(2) L. & Biosciences lsae019 (2024), https://doi.org/10.1093/jlb/lsae019
• Jorge L. Contreras, The Evolution of Open Source Biotech: From Liberty to Justice in A Human-Centered Approach to Health Innovations (Lisa Biersay, Thomas Pogge, Peter Yu, eds., Cambridge Univ. Press, 2025, forthcoming)
• Jorge L. Contreras, Voluntary Intellectual Property Pledges and COVID-19 in Intellectual Property, COVID-19 and the Next Pandemic: Diagnosing Problems, Developing Cures 315 (Haochen Sun & Madhavi Sunder, eds., Cambridge Univ. Press 2024).
• Jorge L. Contreras, Genetic Patents and the Sustainable Development Goals in The Elgar Companion to Intellectual Property and the Sustainable Development Goals 121-141 (Matthew Rimmer, Caroline B. Ncube & Bita Amani, eds., Edward Elgar, 2024)
• The Genome Defense (New York: Algonquin, 2021) details the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, which ended the practice of gene patenting in America.
• Jorge L. Contreras, The Open COVID Pledge: Design, Implementation and Preliminary Assessment of an Intellectual Property Commons, 2021 Utah L. Rev. (forthcoming)
• Jorge L. Contreras, Michael Eisen, Ariel Ganz, Mark Lemley, Jenny Molloy, Diane M. Peters, Frank Tietze, Pledging Intellectual Property for Covid-19, 38 Nature Biotech. 1146-50 (2020)
• Jorge L. Contreras, Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics: A Critical Reassessment, 27 Mich. Tech. L. Rev. 1 (2020)
• Christi J. Guerrini & Jorge L. Contreras, Credit for and Control of Research Outputs in Genomic Citizen Science, 21 Annual Rev. Genomics & Human Genetics 465-81 (2020)
• Jorge L. Contreras, The False Promise of Health Data Ownership, 94(4) N.Y.U. L. Rev. 624-661 (2019)
• Luis Gil Abinader & Jorge L. Contreras, The Patentability of Genetic Therapies: CAR-T and Medical Treatment Exclusions Around The World, 34 Am. U. Intl. L.J. 705-762 (2019)
• Jorge L. Contreras & Bartha M. Knoppers, The Genomic Commons, 19 Ann. Rev. Genomics & Human Genetics 429-453 (2018)
• Jorge L. Contreras, The Anticommons at 20: Concerns for Research Continue, 361 Science 335-337 (2018)
• Jorge L. Contreras & Jacob S. Sherkow, CRISPR, surrogate licensing, and scientific discovery, 355 Science 698-700 (2017)
• Jorge L. Contreras, Genetic Property, 105(1) Geo. L.J. 1-54 (2016)
• Jorge L. Contreras & Liza Vertinsky, Pre-Competition, 95(1) N.C. L. Rev. 67-131 (2016)
• Jorge L. Contreras, Narratives of Gene Patenting, 43(4) Fla. St. U. L. Rev. 1133-1199 (2016)
• Jorge L. Contreras, Patent Pledges, 47(3) Ariz. St. L.J. 543-608 (2015)
• Jorge L. Contreras, NIH’s Genomic Data Sharing Policy: Timing and Tradeoffs, 31 Trends In Genetics 55-57 (2015)
• Jorge L. Contreras & Jerome H. Reichman, Sharing by Design: Data and Decentralized Commons, 350 Science 1312-1314 (2015)
• Arthur L. Holden, Jorge L. Contreras, Sally John & Matthew R. Nelson, The International Serious Adverse Events Consortium, 13 Nature Rev. Drug Discovery 795 (2014)
• Jorge L. Contreras, Bermuda’s Legacy: Patents, Policy and the Design of the Genome Commons, 12(1) Minn. J.L., Sci. & Tech. 61-125 (2011)
• Jorge L. Contreras, Public Health versus Personal Liberty: The Uneasy Case for Individual Detention, Isolation and Quarantine, 7 SciTech Lawyer 6, Spr. 2011
• Jorge L. Contreras, Data Sharing, Latency Variables and Science Commons, 25 Berkeley Tech. L.J. 1601-72 (2010)
• Jorge L. Contreras, Prepublication Data Release, Latency, and Genome Commons, 329 Science 393-394 (2010)

I regularly blog at Harvard’s Bill of Health and Infojustice.org.

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TESTIMONY

U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, Intellectual Property Subcommittee, Hearing on “The RESTORE Patent Rights Act: Restoring America's Status as the Global IP Leader” (Washington, DC, Dec. 18, 2024) (witness) - Written Testimony of Professor Jorge L. Contreras

 

SPEECHES, PRESENTATIONS

• IP Day in Montana – University of Montana Blewett School of Law and IP Law Section of the State Bar of Montana (Missoula, MT), Keynote Address, The Genome Defense: Inside the Epic Battle to Determine Who Owns Your DNA (Mar. 2025)
• Property and Health Law 35 Years After Moore v. UC Regents – George Washington University Law School (Washington, DC) “Property Law and Bodily Information” (panel) (Feb. 2025)
• George A. Leet Business Law Symposium at Case Western Reserve University School of Law (Cleveland, OH) “Consensus Templates” (presented paper) (Nov. 2024)
• 2024 Indiana Law Journal Annual Symposium (Bloomington, IN) “Unpacking Open Source Bio” (presented paper) (Nov. 2024)
• Workshop on the Research Handbook on Trade Secrecy in Data and Data Infrastructure at NYU Law (New York, NY) “Genomic Data as Trade Secret” (presented paper) (Sep. 2024)
• Wiet Life Sciences Conference (Chicago, IL), “Unpacking Open Source Bio” (presented paper) (Sep. 2024)
• Intellectual Property Scholars Conference (IPSC) (Berkeley, CA), “Open Source Biotechnology” (paper presented) (Aug. 2024)
• European Society for Human Genetics (ESHG) Annual Meeting (Berlin, Germany, Jun. 2024), “The Genome Defense and Gene Patenting in America” (presentation)