My scholarship is directed towards the patent system, particularly its history, purpose and economic impact on both developing and developed countries. Particular interest is focused on how patentable subject matter has expanded to include life sciences and medicines, particularly since most developed countries excluded medicines until the late 1970s. More recently my scholarship has also included traditional knowledge and its role in the development of patentable inventions.
Intellectual Property Law
Improving Access To Medicines Doesn't Have To Mean More Patents, ExpressO (2008)
Access to medicines presupposes that there are medicines to access, but the development of medicines,...
Beyond Recombinant Technology: Synthetic Biology and Patentable Subject Matter, ExpressO (2008)
Even though it is not yet clear as a matter of law that isolated biological...
Law and Society
Improving Access To Medicines Doesn't Have To Mean More Patents, ExpressO (2008)
Access to medicines presupposes that there are medicines to access, but the development of medicines,...
TRIPS, Bilateralism And Patents: How They Are Failing Both the Developed And The Developing World and What To Do About It., Journal in Communication, Information, and Innovation in Health (2007)
The vast majority of the world’s biological resources and traditional knowledge is located in the...
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The Patenting of Biological Materials In The Context of TRIPS, PhD Thesis (2004)
The Thesis argues that isolated and purified biological materials which are substantially identical to natural...