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Limits of Patentability: Plant Sciences, Stem Cells and Nucleic Acids

Book information

Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year
2013
ISBN
978-3-642-32840-4, 978-3-642-32841-1
DOI
10.1007/978-3-642-32841-1
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2085102 bytes)
Series
SpringerBriefs in Biotech Patents
Edition
1
Pages
46\53
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2013-08-01 04:00:00

Description

SpringerBriefs in Biotech Patents presents timely reports on intellectual properties (IP) issues and patent aspects in the field of biotechnology. In this volume the limits of patentability are addressed, a question that is often raised when it comes to biotechnological inventions: The first section addresses current issues in the patentability of plants produced by essentially biological processes including the controversy between farmer’s privilege and patent exhaustion with respect to seeds in the US. The second section examines the patentability of human embryonic stem cells in Europe and the US, also considering alternative technologies with respect to their practicability and patentability. The third section focuses on the patentability of genes and nucleic acids, especially the issue of patenting of encoding genes and nucleic acids.

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