Publications news
I am currently holding in my hot little hands my very own copy of Patenting Lives: Life Patents, Culture and Development. The book is edited by Johanna Gibson and published by Ashgate. I authored chapter 2 - ‘Life as Chemistry or Life as Biology? An Ethic of Patents on Genetically Modified Organisms’. Thanks to my lovely husband for the illustrations in the chapter. You can see the full cite for the chapter on my publications page.
The book is the product of the Patenting Lives conference, which I attended way back in December 2005 (see here and here). I see also that fellow contributor, Luigi Palombi, has been in the news lately in Australia where the company Genetic Technologies has announced it will enforce its patent rights over the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes, see stories here and here. I’ve written on the BRCA gene patents in the past, particularly in the piece on ‘Health Care and Access to Patented Technologies’ (sorry, the link from my publications page is broken. I will work on fixing it as part of the housekeeping.) It’s interesting to see debates on the gene patents taking place in other countries as well as concerns being expressed about the effects of these patents on the price of health care .
I also see where the occasional paper on the relationship between the CBD and the ITPGRFA co-authored by myself and Christine Frison has been cited in a recently published article in the Journal of World Intellectual Property. The article by Claudio Chiarolla looks at ‘Plant Patenting, Benefit Sharing and the Law Applicable to the Food and Agriculture Organisation Standard Material Transfer Agreement’. You can find the article for free in both html and pdf format here. I’m hoping that the occasional paper might be available in a couple of other languages in the not too distant future as well.
Finally, I still have some publications in the pipeline so there will be more news on this front down the road.
Posted on August 24th, 2008 under Uncategorized • 
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