The Fictions of Autonomous Invention: Accumulation by Dispossession, Commodification and Life Patents in Canada

Privatization: Property and the Remaking of Nature-Society Relations

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 14-37

  Prudham, Scott ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Accumulation by dispossession and commodification of nature two landmark Canadian Supreme Court decisions; Canadian Patent Act and Supreme Court of Canada decision; Capital its role in circulation in biophysical nature and new property rights; Exclusive right to license oncomouse for use in research "academic capitalism"; Exclusive rights over discrete biological processes and entities; Fictions of autonomous invention commodification and life patents in Canada; Global biotechnology strategy; Nature, neoliberalism, and political economy of biotechnology; Opposition to life patents; Patent rights to life

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EID: 84889611569     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444306750.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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