Patenting lives : life patents, culture and development

Patenting lives : life patents, culture and development / edited by Johanna Gibson.

Patenting Lives reflects the critical issues arising from patents and biotechnology. The volume includes contributions from various interests and perspectives, both in the context of current international developments in life patents and the global agenda of harmonization of international intellectu...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Gibson, Johanna
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Aldershot ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., ©2008.
Series:Intellectual property, theory, culture.
Subjects:
Biotechnology > Patents.
Biotechnology.
Bioengineering.
bioengineering.
LAW > Intellectual Property > Patent.
Bioengineering
Biotechnology
patents.
Patents
Patents.
Brevets d'invention.
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Table of Contents:
  • The legal framework surrounding patents for living materials / Tony Howard
  • Life as chemistry or life as biology? : an ethic of patents on genetically modified organisms / Kathryn Garforth
  • The right to development, African countries and the patenting of living organisms : a human rights dilemma / Adejoke Oyewunmi
  • The genetic sequence right : a sui generis alternative to the patenting of biological materials / Luigi Palombi
  • Forfeited consent : body parts in eminent domain / Angela A . Stanton
  • Beyond "protection" : promoting traditional knowledge systems in Thailand / Daniel Robinson
  • Plant genetic resources and the associated traditional knowledge : does the distinction between higher and lower life forms matter? / Chika B. Onwuekwe
  • Analysis of farmers' willingness to pay for agrobiodiversity conservation in Nepal / Diwakar Poudel and Fred H.H. Johnsen
  • Is more less? : an evolutionary economics, critique of the economics of plant breeds' rights / Dwijen Rangnekar.

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