Intellectual Property and Biodiversity: Rights to Animal Genetic Resources by Michelangelo Temmerman is to be published on 19th December.
This is a significant resource at 320 pages. This book covers:
- the continuing applicability of trademarks, geographical indications, copyright, and trade secrets;
- patentability rules and exclusions;
- the extension of patent rights over progeny;
- the underlying elements deciding on the shape of regulation – innovation, economic development, agriculture, human rights, animal welfare, the conservation of resources, and equal trading conditions;
- the meaning of ‘essentially biotechnological processes’;
- the legal definitions of ‘morality’ and ‘ordre public’ in the context of animal welfare;
- and the future of international patent law in the context of global governance theories.
Intellectual Property and Biodiversity has a detailed investigation of how three major jurisdictions – the European Union, the United States, and Canada – have regulated the matter and highlights unresolved issues in the laws dealing with animal genetic resources.
