Law and Modern Biotechnology
Law and Modern Biotechnology

Author: Lyle Glowka

Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9789251049723

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The rapid progress of modern biotechnology has given rise to new legislative needs in order to safeguard human health and the environment while at the same time taking advantage of the opportunities offered by biotechnology. Recent years have seen important new legislation being adopted and older law amended in order to respond to the new challenges. The purpose of this study is to indicate the extent to which international agreements and a small selected group of national laws may already be assisting societies to realize modern biotechnology's potential and avoid its possible risks.

Biotechnology and the Law
Biotechnology and the Law

Author: Hugh B. Wellons

Publisher: American Bar Association

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 1016

ISBN-13: 9781590317617

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The book is written to help lawyers faced with the challenge of identifying the legal issues and processes that must be faced by their clients in building, marketing, and protecting a biotech business. The contributors are experts in this specialized area and provide thorough, yet accessible, overviews of biotech subspecialties with an eye to practical application. A biotech legal practice involves specialized subject matter and regulatory schemes that, generally, are not part of the business lawyer's repertoire and which can present many hazards for the uninitiated. Because of the expansion in biotech practice beyond the traditional organizations and their representatives, this guide was written to help lawyers find their way through the biotech maze.

Patenting Life Forms : Law and Practice
Patenting Life Forms : Law and Practice

Author: Nijar, Gurdial Singh

Publisher: The University of Malaya Press

Published:

Total Pages: 91

ISBN-13: 9831009436

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The advent of modern biotechnology has seen the proliferation of the use of life forms for the creation of products. In tandem with this development, patent over life forms have grown proportionately as the biotechnology industry seeks to protect its investment. This has spawned a debate about the propriety of patenting life forms. This book explores the issues surrounding such patenting. There is a need to identify the reasons for the growth of such patenting, the issues raised, the concerns dealing with such patenting and the way in which countries, especially leading patent countries have sought to resolve the competing views.

Patents and Technological Progress in a Globalized World
Patents and Technological Progress in a Globalized World

Author: Wolrad Prinz zu Waldeck und Pyrmont

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2008-11-20

Total Pages: 898

ISBN-13: 3540887431

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In the last two decades, accelerating technological progress, increasing economic globalization and the proliferation of international agreements have created new challenges for intellectual property law. In this collection of articles in honor of Professor Joseph Straus, more than 60 scholars and practitioners from the Americas, Asia and Europe provide legal, economic and policy perspectives on these challenges, with a particular focus on the challenges facing the modern patent system. Among the many topics addressed are the rapid development of specific technical fields such as biotechnology, the relationship of exclusive rights and competition, and the application of territorially limited IP laws in cross-border scenarios.

Biotechnological Inventions: Moral Restraints and Patent Law
Biotechnological Inventions: Moral Restraints and Patent Law

Author: Oliver Mills

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-01-18

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 1351162462

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Advances in modern biotechnology have produced profound and far-reaching implications for the relationship between humans, animals and the environment. As a result, a debate has arisen surrounding the legal, moral and social problems connected with this technology. A central part of this debate focuses on the role of moral considerations in the patent system as a form of regulation. This book examines this role and asks why in the context of biotechnological inventions morality has become an important issue. The origin, policy and legislative history of patent law in both the United States and member countries of the European Union is examined, with particular reference to the provisions relating to morality. Examining specific cases, the author elucidates the moral concerns associated with modern biotechnology, thus providing an important contribution to the debate and a valuable resource for all those working in this exciting field.