Patenting lives
Subtitle: life patents, culture and development
By: [edited] by Johanna Gibson.
Contributors: Gibson, Johanna.
Series: Intellectual property, theory, culture
Publisher: Ashgate Pub.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780754671046
Subjects: Biotechnology -- Patents; Biotechnology
Genres: Patents.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: The legal framework surrounding patents for living materials / Tony Howard; title: Life as chemistry or life as biology? : an ethic of patents on genetically modified organisms / Kathryn Garforth; title: The right to development, African countries and the patenting of living organisms : a human rights dilemma / Adejoke Oyewunmi; title: The genetic sequence right : a sui generis alternative to the patenting of biological materials / Luigi Palombi; title: Forfeited consent : body parts in eminent domain / Angela A .Stanton; title: Beyond "protection" : promoting traditional knowledge systems in Thailand / Daniel Robinson; title: Plant genetic resources and the associated traditional knowledge : does the distinction between higher and lower life forms matter? / Chika B. Onwuekwe; title: Analysis of farmers' willingness to pay for agrobiodiversity conservation in Nepal / Diwakar Poudel and Fred H.H. Johnsen; title: Is more less? an evolutionary economics, critique of the economics of plant breeds' rights / Dwijen Rangnekar.