Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Patents, Trade Secrets and Other Forms of Intellectual Property Rights; 2 The Advent of Animal Patents: Innovation and Controversy in the Engineering and Ownership of Life; 3 The Economics of Patents; 4 Access to Data and Intellectual Property; 5 Global Intellectual Property: International Developments in Animal Patents; 6 The Public University, Intellectual Property and Agricultural R & D; 7 Lessons from the Patenting of Plants; 8 Patenting and Sequencing the Genome; 9 Open Source and Other Software Intellectual Property Models
Summary
The purpose of this book is to review the role that intellectual property plays in the development of modern animal breeding and genetics
