Intellectual Property and Emerging Technologies

Edited by Matthew Rimmer, Professor of Intellectual Property and Innovation Law, Faculty of Business and Law, Queensland University of Technology (QUT) and Alison McLennan, Assistant Professor, School of Law & Justice, Faculty of Business, Government & Law, University of Canberra, Australia

Contents:

Preface

Introduction: Inventing Life: Intellectual Property and the New Biology
Alison McLennan and Matthew Rimmer

PART I: A HISTORY OF BIODISCOVERY
1. Of Plants, Pills and Patents: Circulating Knowledge
Eva Hemmungs Wirtén

PART II: MEDICINE, BIOTECHNOLOGY AND GENOMICS
2. Bilski v. Kappos and Biotechnology Patents: Back to the Future?
Yann Joly and Francis Hemmings

3. The Current State of Patent Eligibility of Medical and Biotechnology Inventions in the United States
Joshua D. Sarnoff

4. Patent Law, the Emerging Biotechnologies and the Role of Language in Subject-Matter Expansionism
Graham Dutfield

PART III: BIOBANKS, BIOINFORMATICS AND BIOBRICKS
5. Standards for Biobank Access and Intellectual Property
Dianne Nicol and Richard Gold

6. The 1000 Genomes Project
Donna M. Gitter

7. Building with BioBricks: Constructing a Commons for Synthetic Biology Research
Alison McLennan

PART IV: GENETICS, STEM CELLS AND NANOTECHNOLOGY
8. Regulating Gene Regulation: Patenting Small RNAs
Adam Bostanci, Jane Calvert and Pierre-Benoit Joly

9. Stem Cell Patents: Looking for Serenity
Amina Agovic

10. Cosmo, Cosmolino: Patent Law and Nanotechnology
Alison McLennan and Matthew Rimmer

PART V: BIODIVERSITY, FOOD SECURITY AND CLIMATE CHANGE
11. Patenting the Kakadu Plum and the Marjarla Tree: Biodiscovery, Intellectual Property and Indigenous Knowledge
Sarah Holcombe and Terri Janke

12. Climate-Ready Crops: Intellectual Property, Agriculture and Climate Change
Matthew Rimmer

13. The Doomsday Vault: Seed Banks, Food Security and Climate Change
Matthew Rimmer

Bibliography

Index