Seed wars
Subtitle: controversies and cases on plant genetic resources and intellectual property
By: Keith Aoki.
Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Durham, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9781594600500
Subjects: Germplasm resources, Plant -- Law and legislation.; Germplasm resources, Plant -- Law and legislation -- United States.; Plants, Cultivated -- Patents.; Seeds -- Patents.
Genres: Patents.
Other titles: Controversies and cases on plant genetic resources and intellectual property
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-258) and index.
Table of contents: value: Malthus, Mendel, and Monsanto: ownership of plant genetic resources and intellectual property; value: From hunter-gatherers to industrial farmers : a brief history of seed cultivation; value: Grafting plants into U.S. patent law : the convergence of technology and law : 1930-2001 and beyond; value: Overlapping international legal regimes for plant genetic resources : from "common heritage" to "sovereign property"; value: Intellectual property and beyond?