Intellectual Property and Biotechnology: Biological Inventions - Softcover

Rimmer, Matthew

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0857933701 ISBN 13: 9780857933706

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2011

Synopsis

This book documents and evaluates the dramatic expansion of intellectual property law to accommodate various forms of biotechnology from micro-organisms, plants, and animals to human genes and stem cells. It makes a unique theoretical contribution to the controversial public debate over the commercialization of biological inventions.

The author also considers the contradictions between the Supreme Court of Canada rulings in respect of the Harvard oncomouse, and genetically modified canola. He explores law, policy, and practice in both Australia and New Zealand in respect to gene patents and non-coding DNA. This study charts the rebellion against the European Union Biotechnology Directive - particularly in respect of Myriad Genetics' BRCA1 and BRCA2 patents, and stem cell patent applications. The book also considers whether patent law will accommodate frontier technologies - such as bioinformatics, haplotype mapping, proteomics, pharmacogenomics, and nanotechnology.

Intellectual Property and Biotechnology will be of prime interest to lawyers and patent attorneys, scientists and researchers, business managers and technology transfer specialists.

About this title

About the Author

Matthew Rimmer, Professor of Intellectual Property and Innovation Law, Faculty of Business and Law, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia

Edition details

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0857933701
• ISBN 13: 9780857933706
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 392