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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Cheltenham :
Edward Elgar
cop. 2009
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- The early history of Anglo-American patent systems ; Patents and their use in economic warfare ; Patent monopolies versus free trade ; The patent systems of continental Europe ; The internationalization and harmonization of the patent systems ; The isolation contrivance ; Anything under the sun made by man ; The invention of nature? ; Gene wars ; Synthetic biology and a time for reflection.
