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"Contents" [2012] ELECD 127; in Rimmer, Matthew; McLennan, Alison (eds), "Intellectual Property and Emerging Technologies" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2012)

Book Title: Intellectual Property and Emerging Technologies

Editor(s): Rimmer, Matthew; McLennan, Alison

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781849802468

Section Title: Contents

Number of pages: 2

Extract:

Contents
List of contributors vii
Preface xiii

Introduction: Inventing life: intellectual property and the New Biology 1
Alison McLennan and Matthew Rimmer

PART I A HISTORY OF BIODISCOVERY

1 Of plants, pills and patents: circulating knowledge 39
Eva Hemmungs Wirtén

PART II MEDICINE, BIOTECHNOLOGY AND GENOMICS

2 Bilski v. Kappos and biotechnology patents: back to the future? 63
Yann Joly and Francis Hemmings
3 The current state of patent eligibility of medical and
biotechnological inventions in the United States 84
Joshua D. Sarnoff
4 Patent law, the emerging biotechnologies and the role of
language in subject-matter expansionism 117
Graham Dutfield

PART III BIOBANKS, BIOINFORMATICS AND BIOBRICKS

5 Standards for biobank access and intellectual property 133
Dianne Nicol and Richard Gold
6 The 1000 Genomes Project 158
Donna M. Gitter
7 Building with BioBricks: constructing a commons for synthetic
biology research 176
Alison McLennan




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PART IV GENETICS, STEM CELLS AND
NANOTECHNOLOGY

8 Regulating gene regulation: patenting small RNAs 205
Adam Bostanci, Jane Calvert and Pierre-Benoit Joly
9 Stem cell patents: looking for serenity 228
Amina Agovic
10 Cosmo, Cosmolino: patent law and nanotechnology 255
Alison McLennan and Matthew Rimmer

PART V BIODIVERSITY, FOOD SECURITY AND CLIMATE
CHANGE

11 Patenting the Kakadu plum and the Marjarla tree: biodiscovery,
intellectual property and Indigenous knowledge 293
Sarah Holcombe and Terri Janke
12 Climate-ready crops: intellectual property, agriculture and
climate change 320
Matthew Rimmer
13 The Doomsday Vault: seed banks, food security and climate
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