Gene cartels biotech patents in the age of free trade
Explores how patents have been used as an economic protectionist tool, developing and evolving to the point where thousands of patents have been ultimately granted, not over inventions, but over isolated or purified biological materials. This book questions whether the continuing grant of patents ca...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Cheltenham :
Edward Elgar
cop. 2009
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| See on Universidad de Navarra: | https://unika.unav.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991009068339708016&context=L&vid=34UNAV_INST:VU1&search_scope=34UNAV_TODO&tab=34UNAV_TODO&lang=es |
| Summary: | Explores how patents have been used as an economic protectionist tool, developing and evolving to the point where thousands of patents have been ultimately granted, not over inventions, but over isolated or purified biological materials. This book questions whether the continuing grant of patents can be justified when they are used to suppress |
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| Physical Description: | XVI, 394 p. ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Incluye referencias bibliográficas (p. 341-376) e índice |
| ISBN: | 9781847208361 |
