PATENTABILITY IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

The following sections are included:

• Decoding A Genetic Announcement

• Enclosing The Genetic Commons

  • Europe

    • Tudor England

    • Medieval Europe

    • Social Impact of Land Enclosure

    • Other Enclosures: Land, Sea, Air and the Invisible

  • The Middle Kingdom

    • West Meets East

    • Maritime Expeditions

    • East Meets West

  • The New World — USA

    • Opening of the Genetic Floodgate

    • Impacts of the Supreme Court's Decision

• The Final Frontier — Where No Life Scientists Have Gone Before

  • Biopatentability

• Biopiracy And Biocolonialism

  • Cash Cows from Crops

  • Ethnobotany and Bioprospecting

  • Pirating Indigenous Knowledge

    • Taxol for Cancer

    • Rose Periwinkle for Leukemia

    • Repackaging Indigenous Knowledge for Sale

    • Sweet Profit

  • International Governing Bodies

• Just Price

• The Biotech Century

• Who Owns What?