Intellectual Property and Genetically Modified Organisms

Charles Lawson is a recognized expert in the international scholarship on intellectual property, and in particular patenting biologicals and the issues of access and benefit sharing under international law. Berris Charnley is a historian of science. He is interested in seeds, genes, farms and food. Berris has published on the history of intellectual property in the biosciences, the historical construction of British food safety regulations in the 19th century and on developments in contemporary plant science.

Chapter 1 Intellectual Property and Genetically Modified Organisms, BerrisCharnley, CharlesLawson; Chapter 2 Cui bono ? Gauging the Successes of Publicly-funded Plant Breeding in Retrospect, BerrisCharnley; Chapter 3 ‘The Story of a Love Spurned’, StephenHubicki; Chapter 4 Competition in the Agricultural Seeds Sector, CharlesLawson; Chapter 5 Regulating for Traditional Innovation in Agricultural Organisms, KarinneLudlow; Chapter 6 Myriad Genetics and the Remaining Uncertainty for Biotechnology Inventions, DianneNicol; Chapter 7 Just Label It, MatthewRimmer; Chapter 8 Unnaturally Natural, JaySanderson, FranHumphries; Chapter 9 Information About Information About Information, KieranTranter;