Can law make Life (too) Simple?

This book focuses on human gene patents, patents in the animal world, and the pressures put on the patent system by the climate change debate. However, the title looks at patent law from a multilevel and fragmented perspective, including taking a critical view of the increasing involvement of the EU in procedural and substantive patent law.   

Preface 

Summary in Danish 

Table of Abbreviations 

Chapter 1. Subject, Method and Theory 

Chapter 2. Protection of Biotechnology: A Frozen Statute?

Chapter 3. The Power of the Playmakers

Chapter 4. Morality in Europe   

PART II: THE HUMAN GENOME 

Chapter 5. Field Restrictions 

 Chapter 6. Inherited Diseases 

Chapter 7. An Empirical Case Study: Huntington’s disease, spinal muscular atrophy, Canavan’s disease, cystic fibrosis, Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease   

PART III: THE ANIMAL KINGDOM 

Chapter 8. Patenting the Animal Kingdom? From Cross-Breeding to Genetic Make-Up and Biomedical Research   

PART IV: PATENT LAW: A BELLWETHER FOR GLOBAL CONCERNS 

Chapter 9. Designing Substantive Patent Law: From Life Sciences to Climate Change? Chapter 10. Patent Law: A Bellwether for Global Concerns 

Bibliography 

Appendices 

Index