Patenting lives : life patents, culture and development /

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Imprint:Aldershot ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., ©2008.
Description:1 online resource ([xi], 200 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
Series:Intellectual property, theory, culture
Intellectual property, theory, culture.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11185523
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Other authors / contributors:Gibson, Johanna.
ISBN:0754694615
9780754694618
0754671046
9780754671046
Digital file characteristics:data file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary: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 intellectual property.
Other form:Print version: Patenting lives. Aldershot ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., ©2008
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.