- Hardcover: 416 pages
- Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (31 Mar 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1847208363
- ISBN-13: 978-1847208361
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.7 x 2.8 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,861,175 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'It's really excellent: an invaluable source of information and highly readable too.' - Sir John Sulston, University of Manchester, UK and 2002 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Laureate '... this is a book that every policymaker even remotely connected to issues of patents, economics, and biotech should read. This book is essential ammunition for those who oppose gene patenting, and lays out the legal case expertly.' - David Koepsell, SCRIPTed 'The book is of interest to judges, patent attorneys and lawyers and policy-makers in this field... The first part is a fascinating and well researched historical study of patenting... The second part of the book is interesting and the author raises some very important points... a very valuable contribution to the debate of the scope of patent monopolies.' - David Rogers, European Intellectual Property Review 'Gene Cartels is a truly magisterial and important book. It shows how we need to bring together the discrete threads around intellectual property law (ie patent, copyright, etc) so there can be a clear spotlight on the important public policy issues.' - T. Cutler, Cutler & Company 'Gene Cartels is a valuable book for the scientist providing, in an elegantly scholarly style, deep insights into the origins, history, evolution and current status of patent systems. It also discloses features that can lead, in effect, to a misuse of power.' - --From the foreword by Baruch S. Blumberg, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia and University of Pennsylvania, US and Winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1976
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'It's really excellent: an invaluable source of information and highly readable too.' - Sir John Sulston, University of Manchester, UK and 2002 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Laureate '... this is a book that every policymaker even remotely connected to issues of patents, economics, and biotech should read. This book is essential ammunition for those who oppose gene patenting, and lays out the legal case expertly.' - David Koepsell, SCRIPTed 'The book is of interest to judges, patent attorneys and lawyers and policy-makers in this field... The first part is a fascinating and well researched historical study of patenting... The second part of the book is interesting and the author raises some very important points... a very valuable contribution to the debate of the scope of patent monopolies.' - David Rogers, European Intellectual Property Review 'Gene Cartels is a truly magisterial and important book. It shows how we need to bring together the discrete threads around intellectual property law (ie patent, copyright, etc) so there can be a clear spotlight on the important public policy issues.' - T. Cutler, Cutler & Company 'Gene Cartels is a valuable book for the scientist providing, in an elegantly scholarly style, deep insights into the origins, history, evolution and current status of patent systems. It also discloses features that can lead, in effect, to a misuse of power.' - From the foreword by Baruch S. Blumberg, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia and University of Pennsylvania, US and Winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1976
--This text refers to the
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Best work on the law of gene patenting
16 Oct 2009
Format:Hardcover
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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