Gene cartels : biotech patents in the age of free trade / Luigi Palombi

By:

Palombi, Luigi

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Cheltenham : Edward Elgar, 2009Description: xvi, 394 p. 24 cmISBN:

9781847208361

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DDC classification:

346.0486 PAL

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Book	Calcutta	346.0486 PAL (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		IIMC-127677

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Palombi provides a historical review of the patents of isolated biological materials such as DNA and shows how corporations actually suppress research through legal methods. Written for historians, scientists and legal academics, this book maintains that patents should be reserved for inventions, and that patenting biological materials is an illegal monopolization of nature. The author supports his points by examining the history of Anglo-American patent systems, the use of patents in economic warfare and the patent monopoly vs. free trade argument.

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