ABSTRACT
Patenting Lives includes contributions from various interests and perspectives, both in the context of current international developments in life patents and the global agenda of harmonization of international intellectual property. The book is divided into five sections reflecting the critical issues arising from patents and biotechnology - Context; Human Rights and Ethical Frameworks; Medicine and Public Health; Traditional Knowledge; and Agriculture. The international contributors from government, civil society, academia and the private sector provide diverse perspectives on life patents and the facilitation of social, cultural and economic development in the context of international principles of trade.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|17 pages
Context
part 2|47 pages
Human Rights and Ethical Frameworks
chapter 2|26 pages
Life as Chemistry or Life as Biology?
chapter 3|20 pages
The Right to Development, African Countries and the Patenting of Living Organisms
part 3|45 pages
Medicine and Public Health
chapter 4|20 pages
The Genetic Sequence Right
part 4|39 pages
Traditional Knowledge
chapter 7|20 pages
Plant Genetic Resources and the Associated Traditional Knowledge
part 5|35 pages
Agriculture