Patenting Life

Tales from the Front Lines of Intellectual Property and the New Biology

Jorge Goldstein (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

360 Seiten

2025
Georgetown University Press (Verlag)
9781647125196 (ISBN)

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The story of the commercialization of biology by a pioneer in biotechnology patenting

Shortly after the emergence of genetic engineering in the 1970s, academic biologists were courted by venture capitalists and multinational companies. Researchers who understood the new biology of the time went from being merely curious about how the natural world functioned to realizing that they could profit from their newfound recognition. As they were inventing all sorts of newfangled organisms, biologists became acquainted with intellectual property.

Patenting Life provides insights into legal fights over patented microbes, virus-resistant crops, ownership of body parts, and the patents they engendered. Covering the early days of recombinant DNA science to the present, Goldstein shares cases from his own career and those of others involving blockbuster biological drugs, aseptic mosquitoes, genetically engineered cows, and CRISPR, the modern gene-editing technology that promises to vanquish congenital diseases such as sickle cell anemia. He also addresses the perceived downsides of the patent system: the high prices of drugs, international access to COVID-19 vaccines and other medicines, and the ascent of genetically modified crops.

Patenting Life will appeal to readers interested in science and technology and also those interested in laws promoting innovation.

Jorge Goldstein is a patent attorney trained in molecular biology who began his career on the ground floor of the biotechnology revolution forty years ago. He is a partner in Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein, and Fox, PLLC, and the author of the casebook US Biotechnology Patent Law (2023). He received a PhD in chemistry from Harvard University and a JD from George Washington University Law School.

Acknowledgments
Dramatis Personae
Introduction

Part I: The Birth of Commercial Biology
1. The Invention of Patents
2. The Path from Pure to Commercial
3. A Clash of Two Worlds
4. Why Patents in Academia?
5. Scientist-Lawyers

Part II: Issues of First Impression
6. Who Owns Tangibles Taken from Your Body?
7. Who Owns the Intangibles?
8. Quarreling Colleagues
9. Patenting Living Things
10. Patenting Genes
11. Patenting Pureness
12. Enabling Life

Part III: From Microbes to Mammals
13. Microbes
14. Mosquitoes
15. Plants
16. Mammals

Part IV: Maintaining a Careful Balance
17. One Size Does Not Fit All
18. Controlled Monopolies
19. The Age of Biologics
20. International Access to Patented Biologics
21. Genetically Modified Crops

Part V: The Path Running Alongside
22. Tikkun Olam
23. Foliar Feeding

Epilogue
Glossary of Scientific Terms
Glossary of Legal Terms
Notes
Index
About the Author

Erscheinungsdatum	04.02.2025
Zusatzinfo	Not illustrated
Verlagsort	Washington, DC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	612 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Wirtschaft
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Wirtschaftsrecht ► Urheberrecht
	Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
ISBN-13	9781647125196 / 9781647125196
Zustand	Neuware