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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Intellectual property, theory, culturePublication details: Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., c2008.Description: ix, 200 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780754671046 (alk. paper)
  • 0754671046 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 346.04/86 22
LOC classification:
  • K1519.B54 PAT 2008
Online resources:
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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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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