Intellectual property rights in animal breeding and genetics / edited by Max Rothschild and Scott Newman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rothschild, Max Frederick, 1952-

Newman, Scott.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Livestock--Germplasm resources--Patents.

Livestock.

Intellectual property.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (292 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxon, UK ; New York : CABI Pub., c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The purpose of this book is to review the role that intellectual property plays in the development of modern animal breeding and genetics.

Contents:

Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Patents, Trade Secrets and Other Forms of Intellectual Property Rights; 2 The Advent of Animal Patents: Innovation and Controversy in the Engineering and Ownership of Life; 3 The Economics of Patents; 4 Access to Data and Intellectual Property; 5 Global Intellectual Property: International Developments in Animal Patents; 6 The Public University, Intellectual Property and Agricultural R&D; 7 Lessons from the Patenting of Plants; 8 Patenting and Sequencing the Genome; 9 Open Source and Other Software Intellectual Property Models

10 Animals, Ethics and Patents; 11 Development of a Genetic Marker for Litter Size in the Pig: a Case Study; 12 Development and Commercialization of a Genetic Marker for Marbling of Beef in Cattle: a Case Study; 13 A Research and Patent Perspective of Nuclear Transfer Cloning: Case Studies; 14 Dairy Cattle Test Day Models: a Case Study; 15 Development and Commercialization of Software for Genetic Improvement Programmes: a Case Study; 16 Final Thoughts; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-280-83369-6

9786610833696

0-85199-838-0

OCLC:

476061779