Ethics in scientific results application: Gene and life forms patenting

Patenting life: biotechnology, intellectual property, and environmental ethics.

Patents, Ethics, Human Life Forms

Introduction Exploitation and Monopoly of Cloned DNA Sequences Anticipated Benefits of Transgenesis Reservations Concerning Transgenesis Defense of Human Germ Line Intervention Autonomy and Patent Claims Against Parents and Children Distributive Justice and Patent Claims on Extracorporeal Compounds Product Patents on Human DNA Sequences Isolation-Purification Rationale for DNA Product Patents U...

Ethics of Gene Patenting: Moral, Legal, and Practical Perspectives

Oncomouse in Canada: The Patenting of Higher Life Forms

Introduction: Biotechnology is the means or way of manipulating life forms to provide desirable products for man’s use.1 Typically this manipulation is done through genetic engineering. Genetic Engineering is the selective, deliberate alteration of genes by man in such a way as to allow it to produce endogenous proteins with properties different from those of the normal, or to produce entirely ...

Patenting Life Forms: Issues Surrounding the Plant Variety Protection Act

INTRODUCTION ket structure can be maintained concurrent with a patent system. The first is public perception. This paper examines the issues surrounding The patent is not viewed as government regulathe patenting of life forms, specifically the social tion with a purpose, but as a fundamental part of and private costs and benefits of the Plant Varithe institution of private property; not as the ...