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856787
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| Uniform Title
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Patents
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Shiva, Vandana.
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Protect or plunder? : : understanding intellectual property rights /\ Vandana Shiva.
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| Publication Statement
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London ;New York :: Zed Books ;Dhaka :: University Press ;Bangkok :: White Lotus Co. ;Halifax, N.S. :: Fernwood Pub. ;Cape Town :: D. Philip :: Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave,, 2001.
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| Series Statement
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A global issues title
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146 pages ;; 20 cm.
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| ISBN
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0864865147
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: 1552660664
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: 1842771086
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: 1842771094
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: 9780864865144
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: 9781552660669
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: 9781842771082
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: 9781842771099
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| Notes
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Originally published: Patents. New Delhi : Penguin, 2001.
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-146).
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| Contents
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Introduction: Patents -- An Ethical Crisis -- The Role of Patents in History -- The Myth of Patents -- Threats to Biodiversity -- Biopiracy -- Can Seed be Owned? Profiteering from Disease -- Democracy or Dictatorship? -- The Way Forward -- Appendix: Patent Laws in India -- References.
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| Abstract
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The kinds of ideas, technologies, identification of genes, even manipulations of life forms that can be owned and exploited for profit by giant corporations is a vital issue for our times. The author argues that this Western-inspired, unprecedented widening of intellectual property concepts does not in fact stimulate human creativity and the generation of kowledge. Instead, it is being exploited by transnational corporations to increase their profits at the expense of the health of ordinary people and of the age-old knowledge and independence of the world's farmers. Intellectual protection is being transformed into corporate plunder. Little wonder popular feeling runs so high against the WTO that polices this new intellectual order, and the pharmaceutical, biotech and other corporations that benefit from it.
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Biotechnology-- Patents.
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Intellectual property (International law)
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Patents (International law)
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Patents.
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Plants, Cultivated-- Patents.
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Biotechnology-- Patents.
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Intellectual property (International law)
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Patents (International law)
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Patents.
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Plants, Cultivated-- Patents.
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Octrooirecht.
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Recht van de intellectuele eigendom.
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| Dewey Classification
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346.04/86
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341.758
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| LC Classification
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T211.S54 2001b
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| NLM classification
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86.33bcl
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86.33.bcl
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