Contents
Patenting life forms : yesterday, today, and tomorrow / A.M. Chakrabarty
The evolution of gene patents viewed from the United States Patent Office / Gerald J. Mossinghoff
Competition policy in patent cases and antitrust / Gerald Sobel
Product patents on human DNA sequences : an obstacle for implementing the EU biotech directive? / Joseph Straus
Patenting genetic products and processes : a TRIPS perspective / Charles R. McManis
Enclosing the genome : what squabbles over genetic patents could teach us / James Boyle
Perusing property rights in DNA / F. Scott Kieff
Steady the course : property rights in genetic material / Richard A. Epstein
Varying the course in patenting genetic material : a counter-proposal to Richard Epstein's steady course / Rochelle Cooper Dreyfuss
Reaching through the genome / Rebecca S. Eisenberg --The Human Genome Project in retrospect / Michael Abromowicz
Goat-boy roams the halls? / Justin Hughes
Comment on the tragedy of the anticommons in biomedical research / Edmund W. Kitch
An outsider perspective on intellectual property discourse / David A. Hyman
Saving the patent law from itself : informal remarks concerning the systematic problems afflicting developed intellectual property regimes / J.H. Reichman
Biotechnology's uncertainty principle / Dan L. Burk and Mark A. Lemley
Commentary on the panel presentations / Pauline Newman
Commenting on biotechnology's uncertainty principle
(Mostly) against exceptionalism --
O brave new industry, that has such patents in it! Reflections on the economic consequences of patenting DNA / Iain M. Cockburn
Pharmacogenomics, genetic tests, and patent-based incentives / Michael J. Meurer
The effect of intellectual property on the biotechnology industry / James H. Davis and Michele M. Wales
Are real business people so easily thwarted? / Edward T. Lentz
One size fits all? / Robin Jacob
Some empirical evidence on how technologically complex issues are decided in patent cases in U.S. district courts / Roderick R. McKelvie
How ordinary judges and juries decide the seemingly complex technological questions of patentability over the prior art / F. Scott Kieff
The difficult interface : relations between the sciences and the law / Horace Freeland Judson