TY - BOOK AU - Drahos,Peter ED - Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute. TI - Death of patents T2 - Perspectives on intellectual property law and policy SN - 9780953940325 (pbk.) : U1 - 346.41048 DRA PY - 2005/// CY - Witney PB - Lawtext KW - Intellectual property (International law) KW - Patent laws and legislation KW - Conflict of laws KW - Patents KW - Patents (International law) KW - Law KW - ukslc N1 - Published in association with Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute; Includes bibliographical references and index; 1.Death of a patent system - introduction. Peter Drahos -- 2.Schrodinger\'s cat: an observation on modern patent law. Margaret Llewelyn -- 3.A neuropsychological analysis of the law of obviousness. Lachlan S. James -- 4.On proprietary rights and personal liberties: constitutional responses to post-industrial patenting. John R. Thomas -- 5.Shifts in India\'s policy on intellectual property: the roles of ideas, coercion and changing interests. Anitha Ramanna -- 6.The ethics of patenting - uneasy justifications. Sigrid Sterckx -- 7.Legal and ethical aspects of bio-patenting: critical analysis of the EU Biotechnology Directive. Geertrui Van Overwalle -- 8.Is the world ready for substantive patent law harmonisation? Graham Dutfield ER -