| Title | Intellectual Property & Biological Resources |
| Sub Title | Perspectives on contemporary issues |
| Imprint | Marshall Cavendish Academic |
| Specifications | 152 mm X 227 mm, 576 pp, Threadsewn, 900 gms |
| Target Audience | Policy makers, lawyers, researchers, tertiary students and all those interested in intellectual property & biological resources. |
| Price (US) | US$ 43.00  |
This collection of essays was
assembled from the contributions of a broad spectrum of commentators with an
interest in the confluence between intellectual property and biological
resources. These leading scholars were invited to present papers at a conference
in Singapore, held in December 2003, which was organized by the Asia-Pacific
Centre for Environmental Law (of the Faculty of Law at the National University
of Singapore), the Singapore Academy of Law, the Intellectual Property Office of
Singapore and the IP Academy. In recognition of the global character of the
controversies that have emerged in this area of law, and the broad range of
attendant issues that have arisen, a conscious effort was made to select
scholars with expertise in different legal sub-specialties-including patent law,
international environmental law, indigenous rights, traditional knowledge-and
from countries in different geographical regions. The contributors to this
publication hail from Singapore, China, India, Australia, the United Kingdom,
the United States, Canada and Peru. Each provides a distinct and important
perspective on the complex web of contemporary issues that policy makers have
had to grapple with. By drawing together the various strands of the debates in
this area of the law, it is hoped that a more complete and balanced picture
would emerge of the controversies surrounding the use of the intellectual
property system in the commercial exploitation of bio-organic
innovation.
About the
Editor
Burton
Ong
is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law, National
University of Singapore. He pursued his undergraduate and graduate degrees at
National University of Singapore (NUS), Oxford University, and Harvard Law
School. He graduated at the top of his LLB class at NUS and BCL class at Oxford,
where he was also awarded the Vinerian Scholarship. Since joining the Law
Faculty in 1999, he has taught Legal Methods and System, Contract Law, Law and
Competition Law. His current teaching portfolio includes jump-starting the first
-year students in his Contract Law tutorial groups with common law concepts and
theory, and exploring the expanding galaxies of Intellectual Property and
Competition Law with the third-and fourth- year students enrolled in these
courses. He recently organised an international conference on "Intellectual
Property and Biological Resources" in December 2003 on behalf of APCEL and its
partner institutions. His most recent representative work is a paper titled "Why
Moral Rights Matter: Recognizing the Intrinsic Value of Integrity Rights" in the
Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts (summer 2003 issue). He is also an
Executive Committee member of the Asia-Pacific Centre for Environmental Law and
a Fellow of Singapore's Academy.
