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Gibson J. (ed.) Patenting Lives. Life Patents, Culture and Development
Издательство Ashgate Publishing, 2008, -213 pp.

The social and cultural dimensions of intellectual property frameworks are significant subject matter of intellectual examination and investigation. Indeed, the economic impact of patents on development and local infrastructures is of particular conce. However, critical engagement with patent law, as an area of intellectual property law, is generally undertaken in ways that are somewhat in contrast to the emphases on communication and cultural life that we see in other areas of intellectual property debate, such as copyright. Indeed, what is suggested is a distinction between the creativity of ‘cultural goods’, protected by copyright, and the technical skill of utilitarian economic goods, protected by patents.2 Copyright protection arises automatically (a flash of inspiration perhaps?). Patent protection requires registration and the satisfaction of various criteria – including utility or industrial application (a patent is protection for a solution to a technical problem – a useless invention cannot be an invention, by very definition).
In other words, rightly or wrongly, what is suggested is perhaps a lesser public engagement with this area of intellectual property law, possibly because of its perceived technical and utilitarian character, which appears to distance users from the debate. This is notwithstanding discussions regarding access to medicines, access to seed and other examples, but the distance persists in the way in which criticism and recommendations are constrained within the framework of encouraging and disseminating innovation as an economic activity. Why is a patent not part of our cultural life?
This difference in treatment at the level of public debate more widely somewhat obscures the cultural aspects of patents. Patents in biotechnology and gene-related inventions are in fact an important legal and analytical nexus for the use and consumption of patents (their cultural character) and the economic interpretations of the market created for such products. In other words, what is the role of users in motivating innovation and influencing the development of patent law and its interpretation? Arguably, it is significant and timely to recognise the cultural character of patent law and the growing relevance of users of the system in the interpretation of the market and in the development of the law.
In order to contribute meaningfully to this debate, the objective of the Patenting Lives Project3 was to generate a network of researchers from diverse disciplines and contexts in order to examine not only the broader impacts, but also the diverse ‘publics’ constituted and motivated by this debate.

Introduction: Patent Publics, Patent Cultures
Part 1: Context
The Legal Framework Surrounding Patents for Living Materials
Part 2: Human Rights and Ethical Frameworks
Life as Chemistry or Life as Biology? An Ethic of Patents on Genetically Modified Organisms
The Right to Development, African Countries and the Patenting of Living Organisms: A Human Rights Dilemma
Part 3: Medicine and Public Health
The Genetic Sequence Right: A Sui Generis Alteative to the Patenting of Biological Materials
Forfeited Consent: Body Parts in Eminent Domain
Part 4: Traditional Knowledge
Beyond ‘Protection’: Promoting Traditional Knowledge Systems in Thailand
Plant Genetic Resources and the Associated Traditional Knowledge: Does the Distinction between Higher and Lower Life Forms Matter?
Part 5: Agriculture
Analysis of Farmers’ Willingness to Pay for Agrobiodiversity Conservation in Nepal
Is More Less? An Evolutionary Economics Critique of the Economics of Plant Breeds’ Rights
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