Gene patents and collaborative licensing models
Subtitle: patent pools, clearinghouses, open source models, and liability regimes
By: [edited by] Geertrui Van Overwalle.
Contributors: Overwalle, Geertrui van.
Series: Cambridge intellectual property and information law; Cambridge intellectual property and information law
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780521896733
Subjects: Genetics -- Patents; Genetics -- ethics; Genetics -- legislation & jurisprudence; Licensure -- legislation & jurisprudence; Models, Economic; Patents as Topic -- ethics; Patents as Topic -- legislation & jurisprudence
Genres: Patents
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Patent pooling for gene-based diagnostic testing : conceptual framework / Birgit Verbeure; title: Case 1. The MPEG LA licensing model : what problem does it solve in biopharma and genetics? / Lawrence A. Horn; title: Case 2. The SARS case : IP fragmentation and patent pools / Carmen E. Correa M; title: Critical analysis of patent pools / Jorge A. Goldstein; title: Clearinghouse mechanisms in genetic diagnostics : conceptual framework / Esther van Zimmeren; title: Case 3. The global biodiversity information facility : an example of an information clearinghouse / James L. Edwards; title: Case 4. BirchBob : an example of a technology exchange clearinghouse / Esther van Zimmeren and Dirk Avau; title: Case 5. The public intellectual property resource for agriculture : a standard license public sector clearinghouse for agricultural IP / Alan B. Bennett and Sara Boettiger; title: Case 6. The Science Commons Material Transfer Agreement Project : a standard license clearinghouse / Thinh Nguyen.; title: Case 7. The collective management of copyright and neighbouring rights : an example of a royalty collection clearing house / Jan Corbet; title: Comment on the conceptual framework for a clearinghouse mechanism / Michael Spence; title: Open source genetics : a conceptual framework / Janet Hope; title: Case 8. Cambia's Biological Open Source Initiative (BiOS) / Nele Berthels and Richard Jefferson; title: Case 9. Diversity Arrays Technology Pty Ltd. applying the open source philosophy in agriculture / Andrzej Kilian; title: Critical commentary on "open source" in the life sciences / Arti K. Rai; title: Several kinds of "should" : the ethics of open source in life sciences innovation / Antony Taubman; title: Pathways across the valley of death : novel intellectual property strategies for accelerated drug discovery / Arti K. Rai ... [et al.]; title: Case 10. The International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture : the standard material transfer agreement as implementation of a limited compensatory liability regime / Victoria Henson-Apollonio.; title: Critical analysis of property rules, liability rules, and molecular futures : bargaining in the shadow of the cathedral / Dan L. Burk; title: Gene patents : from discovery to invention, a geneticist's view / Gert Matthijs and Gert-Jan Van Ommen; title: "Patent tsunami" in the field of genetic diagnostics : a patent practitioner's view / Jacques Warcoin; title: Gene patents and clearing models : some comments from a competition law perspective / Hanns Ullrich; title: Access to genetic patents and clearinghouse model : an economic perspective / Reiko Aoki; title: The role of law, institutions, and governance in facilitating access to the scientific research commons : a philosopher's perspective / Tom Dedeurwaerdere; title: Of thickets, blocks, and gaps : designing tools to resolve obstacles in the gene patents landscape / Geertrui Van Overwalle.