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Governing Digitally Integrated Genetic Resources, Data, and Literature : Global Intellectual Property Strategies for a Redesigned Microbial Research Commons.
2016
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Title
Governing Digitally Integrated Genetic Resources, Data, and Literature : Global Intellectual Property Strategies for a Redesigned Microbial Research Commons.
Item Type
Book
Description
1 online resource (680 pages)
ISBN
9781316359990 Print
Summary
This book examines the current legal status of the international genetic information commons and proposes alternative management strategies.
Note
Description based upon print version of record.
This book examines the current legal status of the international genetic information commons and proposes alternative management strategies.
This book examines the current legal status of the international genetic information commons and proposes alternative management strategies.
Formatted Contents Note
Cover
Half-title
Title page
Copyright information
Table of contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
1 Uncertain Legal Status of Microbial Genetic Resources in a Conflicted Geopolitical Environment
I. Introduction
II. The Changing Nature of Microbial Research
A. The "Wet Lab" Era
B. The Revolution in Genetic Science
C. Cutting-Edge Applications of Microbiology in Response to Major Global Challenges
1. Improving Human Health and Mitigating Pandemics
2. Enhancing Agricultural Production and Food Security.
3. Protecting the Natural Environment and Conserving Biodiversity
4. Addressing the Energy Challenge by Producing Biofuels
D. A New Research Paradigm for the Life Sciences
III. Limits of the Emerging Movement to Digitally Integrate Research Inputs into the "New Biology"
A. Recognizing Institutional and Legal Challenges to the Existing Microbial Research Infrastructure
B. Towards a Redesigned Microbial Research Commons
Part One International Regulation of Genetic Resources and the Assault on Scientific Research.
2 Between Private and Public Goods: Emergence of the Transnational Research Commons...
I. Historical Importance of Genetic Resources as Global Public Goods
A. Dependence of Wet-Lab Microbiology on Cross-Border Exchanges of Validated...
1. Formation of an International Consortium of Public Service Microbial Culture Collections
2. An Ancillary Research Commons for Influenza Viruses
B. Early Efforts to Form an Agricultural Research Commons for Plant Genetic Resources
1. Emergence of an International Consortium for the Preservation...
2. Short-Lived Recognition of Plant Genetic Resources as the Common Heritage of Mankind
II. Impinging Intellectual Property Rights Promoted by the Developed Countries
A. Sui Generis Plant Breeders' Rights and Related Biotechnology Patents
1. Strengthened International Protection for Commercial Plant Breeders
2. The Developing Countries Assert Countervailing Proprietary Rights of Their Own
B. Mandatory Protection of Some Microbial-Related Inventions Under the TRIPS Agreement of 1994
1. Increasing Reliance on Patents and Trade Secrecy Laws to Protect Commercial...
2. Possible Patent Thickets
III. Mounting Impediments to Research Uses of Genetic Resources
A. The Revolt Against the WHO's First Pandemic Influenza Research Commons
B. Implications for the Present Study
3 Tightening the Regulatory Grip: From the Convention on Biological Diversity in 1992 to the Nagoya Protocol in 2010
I. Regulatory Measures Controlling Access to Genetic Resources Promoted by the Developing Countries
A. Bioprospecting or Biopiracy?
B. Foundations of an International Regime of Misappropriation to Govern Genetic Resources.
1. Indigenous Communities (and Their State Sponsors) as Emerging Stakeholders.
Half-title
Title page
Copyright information
Table of contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
1 Uncertain Legal Status of Microbial Genetic Resources in a Conflicted Geopolitical Environment
I. Introduction
II. The Changing Nature of Microbial Research
A. The "Wet Lab" Era
B. The Revolution in Genetic Science
C. Cutting-Edge Applications of Microbiology in Response to Major Global Challenges
1. Improving Human Health and Mitigating Pandemics
2. Enhancing Agricultural Production and Food Security.
3. Protecting the Natural Environment and Conserving Biodiversity
4. Addressing the Energy Challenge by Producing Biofuels
D. A New Research Paradigm for the Life Sciences
III. Limits of the Emerging Movement to Digitally Integrate Research Inputs into the "New Biology"
A. Recognizing Institutional and Legal Challenges to the Existing Microbial Research Infrastructure
B. Towards a Redesigned Microbial Research Commons
Part One International Regulation of Genetic Resources and the Assault on Scientific Research.
2 Between Private and Public Goods: Emergence of the Transnational Research Commons...
I. Historical Importance of Genetic Resources as Global Public Goods
A. Dependence of Wet-Lab Microbiology on Cross-Border Exchanges of Validated...
1. Formation of an International Consortium of Public Service Microbial Culture Collections
2. An Ancillary Research Commons for Influenza Viruses
B. Early Efforts to Form an Agricultural Research Commons for Plant Genetic Resources
1. Emergence of an International Consortium for the Preservation...
2. Short-Lived Recognition of Plant Genetic Resources as the Common Heritage of Mankind
II. Impinging Intellectual Property Rights Promoted by the Developed Countries
A. Sui Generis Plant Breeders' Rights and Related Biotechnology Patents
1. Strengthened International Protection for Commercial Plant Breeders
2. The Developing Countries Assert Countervailing Proprietary Rights of Their Own
B. Mandatory Protection of Some Microbial-Related Inventions Under the TRIPS Agreement of 1994
1. Increasing Reliance on Patents and Trade Secrecy Laws to Protect Commercial...
2. Possible Patent Thickets
III. Mounting Impediments to Research Uses of Genetic Resources
A. The Revolt Against the WHO's First Pandemic Influenza Research Commons
B. Implications for the Present Study
3 Tightening the Regulatory Grip: From the Convention on Biological Diversity in 1992 to the Nagoya Protocol in 2010
I. Regulatory Measures Controlling Access to Genetic Resources Promoted by the Developing Countries
A. Bioprospecting or Biopiracy?
B. Foundations of an International Regime of Misappropriation to Govern Genetic Resources.
1. Indigenous Communities (and Their State Sponsors) as Emerging Stakeholders.
Available in Other Form
Print version: Reichman, Jerome H. Governing Digitally Integrated Genetic Resources, Data, and Literature : Global Intellectual Property Strategies for a Redesigned Microbial Research Commons New York : Cambridge University Press,c2016
Published
New York : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Language
English
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