Books in the Intellectual Property, Theory, Culture series

Examines a series of issues in public health practice and policy arising from intellectual property protection, commercialisation, and trade developments. This book examines the key concerns in the international debates on intellectual property, public health, and development.

Patenting Lives reflects the critical issues arising from patents and biotechnology. The volume includes contributions from various interests and perspectives, both in the context of current international developments in life patents and the global agenda of harmonization of international intellectual property.

Includes contributions from various interests, in the context of international developments in life patents, and the global agenda of harmonisation of international intellectual property. This book is divided into five sections - Context; Human Rights and Ethical Frameworks; Medicine and Public Health; Traditional Knowledge; and, Agriculture.

Advances the claim that the FAO International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA) adopted in 2001 is the only existing international agreement with the potential to promote food security, conservation of biodiversity and equity.

This book examines the efficacy and relevance in a digital environment of intellectual property and the nature of innovation and creativity, by means of an interlocutory through literature and the imagination of new scenarios for language, business and legal reform.