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Gene cartels : biotech patents in the age of free trade / Luigi Palombi.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Palombi, Luigi.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Biotechnology--Patents.
- Biotechnology.
- Protectionism.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (410 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Cheltenham, U.K. ; Northampton, Mass. : Edward Elgar, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- Contents:
- Cover; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Table of cases; PART I Monopolies in the age of free trade; 1. The early history of Anglo-American patent systems; 2. Patents and their use in economic warfare; 3. Patent monopolies versus free trade; 4. The patent systems of Continental Europe; 5. The internationalization and harmonization of the patent systems; PART II The patenting of biological materials: the monopolization of nature; 6. The isolation contrivance; 7. Anything under the sun made byman; 8. The invention of nature?; 9. Gene wars; 10. Synthetic biology and a time for reflection
- BibliographyIndex
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-23902-3
- 9786612239021
- 1-84844-743-4
- OCLC:
- 434439185
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