Patenting lives life patents, culture and development /

Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Other Authors: Gibson, Johanna.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., c2008.
Series:Intellectual property, theory, culture
Subjects:
Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10263902
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.