INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS AND THE LIFE SCIENCE INDUSTRIES: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE (2ND EDITION) - Hardcover

Dutfield Graham

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9812832270 ISBN 13: 9789812832276

Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc, 2009

Synopsis

This book is a highly readable and entertaining account of the co-evolution of the patent system and the life science industries since the mid-19th century. The pharmaceutical industries have their origins in advances in synthetic chemistry and in natural products research. Both approaches to drug discovery and business have shaped patent law, as have the lobbying activities of the firms involved and their supporters in the legal profession. In turn, patent law has impacted on the life science industries. Compared to the first edition, which told this story for the first time, the present edition focuses more on specific businesses, products and technologies, including Bayer, Pfizer, GlaxoSmithKline, aspirin, penicillin, monoclonal antibodies and polymerase chain reaction. Another difference is that this second edition also looks into the future, addressing new areas such as systems biology, stem cell research, and synthetic biology, which promises to enable scientists to “invent” life forms from scratch.Contents: Seven Tales of a Patent; Patents and the Life Science Industries in the Modern Economy; Past: Dyes, Drugs and Domagk; Adrenaline Rushes — Isolate, Purify … and Patent; Science and Drug Discovery — Ignorance, Serendipity and Rational Drug Design; Aspirin; Insulin; Penicillin and the Antibiotics; Cortisone and the Steroids; Polymerase Chain Reaction; The Gene Patent Wars; Innovations without Patents? The Polio Vaccine and Monoclonal Antibodies; Present: Big Pharma, Small Biotech; Crises, Backlashes and Counter-backlashes; Would We Have Got Where We are Today without Patents?; Future: Systems Biology, Stem Cells, “Synbio” and the Future of Patents.

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Review

A wonderfully informative, insightful, and very readable chronicle. Refreshingly candid, witty, and balanced, I highly recommend it to anyone seeking a broad-based, global perspective on how we got to where we are in life sciences patenting and where we are likely to be headed in the rapidly approaching future. --Professor William Kingston, Trinity College Dublin

No one studying or thinking about patent issues and the biological sciences can afford not to read Dutifield's ridiculously erudite and comprehensive look at the subject. --Professor Paul J Heald, University of Georgia

This second edition is a complete rewrite, much influenced by his increased interest in what it means to invent in the life sciences and by how patent law is shaped by 'contestable assumptions' concerning the boundaries between the natural- and the human-made. The book is an extremely readable and scholarly analysis ... of key importance for those who want to understand the institutions that make the system tick. --David Wield, Director, ESRC Innogen Centre, University of Edinburgh

A fascinating read. Dutfield is a great intellectual all-rounder who effortlessly combines history, natural science, law, ethics, political analysis and business studies. --Doris Schroeder, Director, Centre for Professional Ethics, University of Central Lancashire

In this perceptive and politically literate study, Dutfield carefully explains how modern biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies have lobbied for a patent policy that may sometimes promote progress, but that also exacerbates economic inequalities and panders to the anxieties of the 'worried well'. --Donna Dickenson, Author of Body Shopping Emeritus Professor of Medical Ethics & Humanities,University of London

With sustained verve in this extended second edition, Dutfield is convincing in his claim that, whilst the role of patent systems in creating or directing the big breakthrough scientific or technical advances might remain problematic, the life science industries themselves were influenced strongly both by national patent regimes and by the international system globally. --Ian Inkster, Research Professor of International History, Nottingham Trent University

With zest and enthusiasm Graham Dutfield has shown that a topic thought dry and specialist is neither. His broad-ranging approach brings out the importance and interest of intellectual property rights to a wide range of scholars. --Robert Bud, Author of Penicillin: Triumph and Tragedy, Science Museum, London

A truly elegant, accessible and enthralling description of the development of the life science industry from the 19th century to the present. This fascinating book should be read by everyone interested in the intersection of science, law and politics. --Sigrid Sterckx, Bioethics Institute Ghent

An exceptionally readable and interesting account of the simultaneous growth of intellectual property rights, biological sciences, and the life science industries. --Joshua Sarnoff, Washington College of Law, American University

A lively and informative account. Dutfield addresses both sides of the equation -- the science and technology, as well as the legal framework associated with drug development. He also reflects on current trends in science and technology and the stark choices regarding intellectual property that concern us all, but especially the scientists who have the power to influence government policy and shape the future. --Viviane Quirke, Centre for Health, Medicine & Society: Past & Present Oxford Brookes University

Edition details

• Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9812832270
• ISBN 13: 9789812832276
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 410