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Global Biopiracy : Patents, Plants, and Indigenous Knowledge.

Mgbeoji, Ikechi.

Global Biopiracy : Patents, Plants, and Indigenous Knowledge. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (334 pages)

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Acronyms -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Patents, Indigenous and Traditional Knowledge, and Biopiracy -- 3 Implications of Biopiracy for Biological and Cultural Diversity -- 4 The Appropriative Aspects of Biopiracy -- 5 Patent Regimes and Biopiracy -- 6 Conclusion -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.

Global Biopiracy rethinks the role of international law and legal concepts, the Western-based, Eurocentric patent systems of the world, and international agricultural research institutions as they affect legal ownership and control of plants and TKUP.

9780774851701


Patents (International law).
Plants, Cultivated -- Patents.
Traditional ecological knowledge.
Plant biotechnology -- Patents.
Eurocentrism.
Biodiversity.


Electronic books.

K1519.B54 -- M43 2006eb

346.04/86

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