Perspectives on Properties of The Human Genome Project

Edited By

F. Scott Kieff

Associate Professor of Law

Washington University School of Law

John M. Olin Senior Research Fellow in Law, Economics & Business

Harvard Law School

 

Published By

Academic Press, an imprint of Elsevier, December 2003

Executive Summary

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Front Materials (including title page, table of contents, and list of contributors, acknowledgement and introduction)

 Section  1 – Where We Are and How We Got Here

  1. Patenting Life Forms Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow (Ananda Chakrabarty)

  2. The Evolution of Gene Patents Viewed From the United States Patent Office (Gerald J. Mossinghoff)

  3. Competition Policy in Patent Cases and Antitrust (Gerald Sobel)

  4. Product Patents on Human DNA Sequences: An Obstacle for Implementing the EU Biotech Directive? (Joseph Straus)

  5. Patenting Genetic Products and Processes: A TRIPS Perspective (Charles R. McManis)

  6. Enclosing the Genome: What Squabbles over Genetic Patents Could Teach Us (James Boyle)

Section 2 – The Case for Property Rights

  1. Perusing Property Rights In DNA (F. Scott Kieff)
  2. Steady the Course: Property Rights in Genetic Materials (Richard Epstein)
  3. Varying the Course in Patenting Genetic Material: A Counter-Proposal to Richard Epstein's Steady Course (Rochelle C. Dreyfus)
  4. Reaching Through the Genome (Rebecca Eisenberg)
  5. The Human Genome Project in Retrospect (Michael Abramowicz)
  6. Goat-Boy Roams the Halls? (Justin Hughes)
  7. Comment on the Tragedy of the Anticommons in Biomedical Research (Edmund Kitch)
  8. An Outsider Perspective on Intellectual Property Discourse (David A. Hyman)

Section 3 – Comparisons with Other Technologies and Other Legal Regimes

  1. Saving the Patent System From Itself: Informal Remarks Concerning the Systemic Problems Afflicting Developed Intellectual Property Regimes (Jerome Reichman)
  2. Biotechnology’s Uncertainty Principle (Dan L. Burk & Mark A. Lemley)
  3. Commentary on the Panel Presentations (Pauline Newman)
  4. Commenting on Biotechnology’s Uncertainty Principle (Herbert F. Schwartz)
  5. (Mostly) Against Exceptionalism (R. Polk Wagner)

Section 4 – Transactions over Genetics in Academia and in Business

  1. O Brave New Industry, The Has such Patents in it! Reflections on the Economic Consequences of Patenting DNA (Iain Cockburn)
  2. Pharmacogenetics, Genetic Tests, and Patent-Based Incentives (Michael Meurer)
  3. The Effect of Intellectual Property on the Biotechnology Industry (James F. Davis & Michele M. Wales)
  4. Are Real Business People So Easily Thwarted? (Edward T. Lentz)

Section 5 – Disputes over Genetics in Academia and in Business

  1. One Size Fits All? (Robin Jacob)
  2. Some Empirical Evidence on How Technologically Complex Issues Are Decided In Patent Cases in U.S. District Courts (Roderick R. McKelvie)
  3. How Ordinary Judges and Juries Decide the Seemingly Complex Technological Questions of Patentability over the Prior Art  (F. Scott Kieff)
  4. The Difficult Interface: Relations Between the Sciences and Law (Horace Freeland Judson)

Conclusion

Index

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