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Patent politics : life forms, markets, and the public interest in the United States and Europe /

Parthasarathy, Shobita,

Patent politics : life forms, markets, and the public interest in the United States and Europe / Shobita Parthasarathy. - 290 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-276) and index.

Introduction -- Defining the public interest in the US and European patent systems -- Confronting the questions of life-form patentability -- Commodification, animal dignity, and patent-system publics -- Forging new patent politics through the human embryonic stem cell debates -- Human genes, plants, and the distributive implications of patents -- Conclusion.

9780226437859 (cloth : alk. paper)

2016026515


Biotechnology--Patents.
Patent laws and legislation--History.--United States
Patent laws and legislation--History.--Europe
Bioethics--United States.
Bioethics--Europe.

TP248.175 / .P35 2017

174.2

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