West Virginia Unviversity College of Law Professor Sean Tu will receive a research grant from the National Institute of Health Care Management in 2023-2024. NIHCM awards grants to those who initiate work that will "advance evidence on a broad range of factors that contribute to rising health care costs and ongoing health care disparities."

Professor Tu's project is called "Improving Competitive Drug Markets by Reviewing Patents." He will be joined on the project by Aaron S. Kesselheim of Harvard University and Victor van de Wiele of the University of Cambridge.

West Virginia College of Law professor  S. Sean Tu recently published new opinion piece in JAMA. The article, titled  "Recent Patent Reform Bills and Their Implications for Prescription Drugs," is co-authored by Professor Tu with researchers at Program On Regulation, Therapeutics, And Law (PORTAL) at Harvard Medical School where Professor Tu is a visiting professor.  It was published online by the journal on January 13, 2023.

The article discusses three bills expected to be re-introduced in Congress this session with implication for intellectual property law: the Patent Eligibility Restoration Act of 2022 (S. 4734), the Interagency Patent Coordination and Improvement Act of 2022 (S. 4430), and the Patent Examination and Quality Improvement Act of 2022 (S. 4704). 

West Virginia College of Law Professor Caroline Osborne recently published a new article in the SMU Science and Technology Law Review. The article is titled "Copyright, Pandemics, and Emergencies: When Desparate Times Dictate Contextual Responses" and appears in volume 24, issue 2 of the journal.

From the abstract:

West Virginia University College of Law professor Sean Tu published a new article in Health Affairs Forefront on June 21, 2022. Professor Tu, with co-authors Dennis Crouch of the University of Missouri and Aaron Kesselheim of Harvard University, makes a proposal to change the panent approval and patent examination process. The proposal targets "high-reference patents" or those that are submitted with hundreds of citations by the applicants.

Professor Tu's article may be found online: https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/forefront.20220615.404330