Scientific research and patent law belong to two very different worlds, which made dificult that there are points of contact. While the underlying principles that authorize the granting of a patent (existence of a patentable invention, novelty, a inventive improve in the object or capacity in question and there industrial application) envisioned no conflicts were observed. The changes in patent law as a result of increasing market pressure has led to a transformation that disturbs the free movement of knowledge and scientific research itself; ethical issues of undoubted interest. The most significant notes of this process are described in this work as well as the most important conflicts that arose.
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