Gene Cartels: Biotech Patents in the Age of Free Trade
Luigi Palombi, Baruch S. Blumberg
Starting in the 13th century, this book explores how patents have been used as an economic protectionist tool, developing and evolving to the point where thousands of patents have been ultimately granted, not over inventions, but over isolated or purified biological materials. DNA, invented by no man and once thought to be 'free to all men and reserved exclusively to none', has become cartelised in the hands of multinational corporations in the 20th century. This book questions whether the continuing grant of patents can be justified when they are now used to suppress, rather than promote, research and development in the life sciences.
หมวดหมู่:
ปี:
2009
สำนักพิมพ์:
Edward Elgar Pub
ภาษา:
english
จำนวนหน้า:
394
ISBN 10:
1847208363
ISBN 13:
9781847208361
ไฟล์:
EPUB, 604 KB
IPFS:
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english, 2009