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