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Gene Cartels: Biotech Patents in the Age of Free Trade

By Luigi Palombi , Baruch S. Blumberg

Book information

Publisher
Edward Elgar Pub
Year
2009
ISBN
1847208363, 9781847208361
LCC
K1519.B54 P35 2009
Open Library ID
OL23928394M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1227805 bytes)
Pages
410\410
Topic
Biology
Library
duansci.com
Time added
2010-05-17 00:23:50

Description

Dr. Palombi's work is a comprehensive examination of the law surrounding the complex social and scientific issue of gene patents. He delves into not only the current practice, and its legal and policy justifications, but the entire history of the law surrounding patents on life-forms and natural products. He tears apart the practice, based on his detailed legal analysis, showing that it is not only illogical, but unlawful. In particular, he decimates the myth that cDNA is somehow something "new" or "inventive," and illustrates how the existing case law cannot seriously support the patenting of supposedly "isolated and purified" genes. His legal arguments ought to support current efforts to overturn the practice, either through legislative action, or through lawsuits like that recently brought against Myriad, Inc., for its patent on the BRCA1 and 2 "breast cancer" genes. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the debate, as well as those whose lives might very well depend on the debate, including anyone with genetic predispositions to diseases, or with monogenic genetic diseases which have or may already be patented.

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