Intellectual Property Rights and the Life Science Industries : A Twentieth Century History (Hardcover, New ed)

Contents: Introduction; Intellectual property in the global economy: high stakes and propaganda warfare; Intellectual property and regulation theory; The emergence of modern patent law; Organic chemistry and the synthetic dyestuff industry; The pharmaceutical industry; Biotechnology, genomics and the new life science corporations; Plant breeding, the seed industry, and plant breeders' rights; Towards a global IP regime: trade and diplomacy; Forums of resistance?; Epilogue: the life science industries in a patent-free world; Bibliography; Indices.