Intellectual Property and Biotechnology

by Arti K. Rai (Editor)

Overview

In this timely title Professor Arti Rai brings together a wide range of articles that reveal the important role of intellectual property law in the formation and development of the dynamic and economically significant biotechnology industry.

The collection encompasses theoretical articles that present principles of patent economics important to the industry, articles that discuss the patent law doctrines most relevant to biotechnology and empirical studies on the 'real world' effects of patents and secrecy. These are resonant issues in an ever-expanding field, and will establish this book as an essential reference point for lawyers, researchers and students.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781848442610
Publisher:	Edward Elgar Publishing
Publication date:	09/29/2011
Series:	Critical Concepts in Intellectual Property Law series , #3
Pages:	584
Product dimensions:	6.62(w) x 9.62(h) x (d)

About the Author

Edited by Arti K. Rai, Elvin R. Latty Professor of Law, Duke Law School, Durham, US

Table of Contents

Contents:

Acknowledgements

Introduction Arti K. Rai

PART I THE LAW AND ECONOMICS OF BIOTECHNOLOGY PATENTS: FIRST PRINCIPLES
A. Foundational Technologies
1. Edmund W. Kitch (1977), ‘The Nature and Function of the Patent System’
2. Robert P. Merges and Richard R. Nelson (1990), ‘On the Complex Economics of Patent Scope’

B. Anti-commons
3. Michael A. Heller and Rebecca S. Eisenberg (1998), ‘Can Patents Deter Innovation? The Anti Commons in Biomedical Research’
4. John P. Walsh, Ashish Arora and Wesley M. Cohen (2003), ‘Working Through the Patent Problem’
5. Fiona Murray and Scott Stern (2007), ‘Do Formal Intellectual Property Rights Hinder the Free Flow of Scientific Knowledge? An Empirical Test of the Anti-commons Hypothesis’
6. Chris Holman (2006) ’Clearing a Path Through the Patent Thicket’

C. Patents and Industrial Organization
7. Ashish Arora and Robert P. Merges (2004), ‘Specialised Supply Firms, Property Rights and Firm Boundaries’

PART II ADDRESSING TRANSACTION COSTS: THE ROLE OF THE UTILITY REQUIREMENT
8. John M. Golden (2001), ‘Biotechnology, Technology Policy, and Patentability: Natural Products and Invention in the American System’

PART III THE ROLE OF INSTITUTIONS: BIOTECHNOLOGY PATENTS AND THE FEDERAL CIRCUIT
9. Arti K. Rai (1999), ‘Intellectual Property Rights in Biotechnology: Addressing New Technology’
10. Dan L. Burk and Mark A. Lemley (2002), ‘Is Patent Law Technology-Specific?’

PART IV PATENTABLE SUBJECT MATTER
11. Kevin Emerson Collins (2007), ‘Propertizing Thought’

PART V EXPERIMENTAL USE
12. Janice M. Mueller (2001), ‘No ‘’Dilettante Affair’’: Rethinking the Experimental Use Exception to Patent Infringement for Biomedical Research Tools’

PART VI THE ROLE OF SECRECY AND PHYSICAL EXCLUDABILITY
13. John P. Walsh, Wesley M. Cohen and Charlene Cho (2007), ‘Where Excludability Matters: Material Versus Intellectual Property in Academic Biomedical Research’

PART VII COMMERCIALIZATION OF PUBLICLY FUNDED RESEARCH
14. Richard Jensen and Marie Thursby (2001), ‘Proofs and Prototypes for Sale: The Licensing of University Inventions’
15. Arti K. Rai and Rebecca S. Eisenberg (2003), ‘Bayh-Dole Reform and the Progress of Biomedicine’

PART VIII INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND CONSUMER ACCESS
16. Robert Cook-Deegan, Subhashini Chandrasekharan and Misha Angrist (2009), ‘The Dangers of Diagnostic Monopolies’
17. Henry G. Grabowski, David B. Ridley and Kevin A. Schulman (2007), ‘Entry and Competition in Generic Biologics’

Name Index

Editorial Reviews

‘Arti Rai is a wise and pithy scholar of patent jurisprudence. She is an insightful futurist of intellectual property, showing great insight about the implications of new technologies – such as information technology, biotechnology, pharmacogenomics, and synthetic biology. Arti Rai is also a lucid and persuasive advocate of the necessity for patent law reform. This authoritative and carefully researched volume will be essential reading.’

Matthew Rimmer