Intellectual property rights in animal breeding and genetics /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2002.
• Subjects: Livestock > Germplasm resources > Patents.; Intellectual property.; Laws and Regulations.; Economics (General), (New June 2002); Plant Breeding and Genetics.; Dairy Animals.; Meat Producing Animals.; Animal Genetics and Breeding, (New March 2000); Animal Reproduction and Embryology, (New March 2000); Genetic Engineering, Gene Transfer and Transgenics, (New June 2002); Mathematics and Statistics.; Cattle.; Pigs.; Plants.; Animal breeding.; Beef cattle.; Beef quality.; Breeders' rights.; Case reports.; Commercialization.; Computer software.; Dairy cattle.; DNA cloning.; Domestic animals.; Economics.; Ethics.; Genetic improvement.; Genetic markers.; Genetics.; Genomes.; Innovations.; Intellectual property rights.; Litter size.; Microsatellites.; Patents.; Plant breeding.; Property rights.; Electronic books.
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• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xx, 272 pages) : illustrations, charts; Also available in print format.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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This book contains 16 chapters. Topics covered are: patents, trade secrets and other forms of intellectual property rights; advent of animal patents: innovation and controversy in the engineering and ownership of life; economics of patents; access to data and intellectual property; global intellectual property: international developments in animal patents; public university, intellectual property and agricultural R and D; lessons from the patenting of plants; patenting and sequencing the genome; open source and other software intellectual property models; animals, ethics and patents; development of a genetic marker for litter size in the pig: a case study; development and commercialization of a genetic marker for marbling of beef in cattle: a case study; research and patent perspective of nuclear transfer cloning: case studies; dairy cattle test day models: a case study; development and commercialization of software for genetic improvement programmes: a case study; final thoughts.