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Intellectual Property and Emerging Technologies: The New Biology (Queen Mary Studies in Intellectual Property series) - Hardcover

 
9781849802468: Intellectual Property and Emerging Technologies: The New Biology (Queen Mary Studies in Intellectual Property series)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1849802467 ISBN 13: 9781849802468
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2012

Synopsis

This unique and comprehensive collection investigates the challenges posed to intellectual property by recent paradigm shifts in biology. It explores the legal ramifications of emerging technologies, such as genomics, synthetic biology, stem cell research, nanotechnology, and biodiscovery.

Extensive contributions examine recent controversial court decisions in patent law - such as Bilski v. Kappos, and the litigation over Myriad's patents in respect of BRCA1 and BRCA2 - while other papers explore sui generis fields, such as access to genetic resources, plant breeders' rights, and traditional knowledge. The collection considers the potential and the risks of the new biology for global challenges - such as access to health-care, the protection of the environment and biodiversity, climate change, and food security. It also considers Big Science projects - such as biobanks, the 1000 Genomes Project, and the Doomsday Vault. The inter-disciplinary research brings together the work of scholars from Australia, Canada, Europe, the UK, and the US and involves not only legal analysis of case law and policy developments, but also historical, comparative, sociological, and ethical methodologies.

Intellectual Property and Emerging Technologies will appeal to policy makers, legal practitioners, business managers, inventors, scientists, and researchers.

Contributors include: A. Agovic, A. Bostanci, J. Calvert, G. Dutfield, D.M. Gitter, R. Gold, F. Hemmings, E. Hemmungs Wirten, S. Holcombe, T. Janke, P.-B. Joly, Y. Joly, A. McLennan, D. Nicol, M. Rimmer, J.D. Sarnoff

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About the Author

Edited by Matthew Rimmer, Professor of Intellectual Property and Innovation Law, Faculty of Business and Law, Queensland University of Technology (QUT) and Alison McLennan, Assistant Professor, School of Law & Justice, Faculty of Business, Government & Law, University of Canberra, Australia

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Publisher
Edward Elgar Publishing
Publication date
2012
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1849802467
ISBN 13 
9781849802468
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
512
Editor
Rimmer Matthew, McLennan Alison