Patenting Life
Inspired by the excellent CAUT conference on Controlling Intellectual Property - The Academic Community and the Future of Knowledge I’ve posted a pdf of this paper which hasn’t been published…
Patenting Life: Commodification, the Patent Regime, and the Public Interest
Abstract
This paper will look at bioinformatics and the various ethical issues raised by the patenting of life forms. Debates over life patents, specifically the 2002 Canadian Supreme Court decision which ruled against patenting the OncoMouse