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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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 intellectu...

Table of Contents:

• Patents, Trade Secrets and Other Forms of Intellectual Property Rights / William Lesser
• The Advent of Animal Patents : Innovation and Controversy in the Engineering and Ownership of Life / Daniel J. Kevles
• The Economics of Patents / Corinne Langinier and GianCarlo Moschini
• Access to Data and Intellectual Property / Margaret M. Dunbar
• Global Intellectual Property : International Developments in Animal Patents / Andrew Blattman, John McCann, Colin Bodkin and Jovanka Naumoska
• The Public University, Intellectual Property and Agricultural R&D / Thomas A. Fretz and David R. MacKenzie
• Lessons from the Patenting of Plants / William Lesser and Martha Mutschler
• Patenting and Sequencing the Genome / Heidi S. Nebel, Lila A.T. Akrad and Tonya Y. Brady
• Open Source and Other Software Intellectual Property Models / Scott Newman and Bruce L. Golden
• Animals, Ethics and Patents / Donald Evans
• Development of a Genetic Marker for Litter Size in the Pig : a Case Study / Max Rothschild and Graham S. Plastow
• Development and Commercialization of a Genetic Marker for Marbling of Beef in Cattle : a Case Study / William Barendse
• A Research and Patent Perspective of Nuclear Transfer Cloning : Case Studies / Robin Teskin and José Cibelli
• Dairy Cattle Test Day Models : a Case Study / Lawrence R. Schaeffer
• Development and Commercialization of Software for Genetic Improvement Programmes : a Case Study / Brian Kinghorn, Susan Meszaros and John Wooliams
• Final Thoughts / Max Rothschild and Scott Newman.