Gene cartels : biotech patents in the age of free trade / Luigi Palombi. — Cheltenham : Edward Elgar, c2009. – (58.2/P181)

Contents

    Contents
    
    Foreword Baruch S. Blumberg
    Preface
    Table of cases
    PART I - MONOPOLIES IN THE AGE OF FREE TRADE
    1 The early history of Anglo-American patent systems
    2 Patents and their use in economic warfare
    3 Patent monopolies versus free trade
    4 The patent systems of Continental Europe
    5 The internationalization and harmonization of the patent systems
    PART II - THE PATENTING OF BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS THE MONOPOLIZATION OF NATURE
    6 The isolation contrivance
    7 Anything under the sun made by man
    8 The invention of nature?
    9 Gene wars
    10 Synthetic biology and a time for reflection
    Bibliography
    Index