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Synthetic Genomics: Intellectual Property, Innovation Policy, and Advanced Biofuels
3rd Generation Biofuels : Disruptive Technologies to Enable Commercial Production (2022)
  • Matthew Rimmer, Queensland University of Technology
Abstract
This chapter considers the relationship between intellectual property, and advanced biofuels against the background of larger public policy concerns about food security, energy transition, sustainable development, and climate change. It provides a case study of the partnership between Synthetic Genomics and ExxonMobil in developing algae-based biofuels. This chapter explores matters of patent law, policy, and practice in the context of advanced biofuels. It also examines other secondary forms of intellectual property – such as trade mark law, consumer protection, advertising standards, and the protection of trade secrets and confidential information. This chapter concludes by considering the intersection between intellectual property and innovation policy in the context of advanced biofuels.
Keywords
  • intellectual property,
  • biofuels,
  • algae,
  • advanced biofuels,
  • patent law,
  • trade mark law,
  • consumer law
Publication Date
May, 2022
Editor
Eduardo Jacob-Lopes, Leila Zepka, Ihana Severo and Mariana Maroneze
Publisher
Elsevier
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-90971-6.00010-3
Citation Information
Matthew Rimmer. "Synthetic Genomics: Intellectual Property, Innovation Policy, and Advanced Biofuels" Cambridge (Ma) and Kidlington (Ox)3rd Generation Biofuels : Disruptive Technologies to Enable Commercial Production (2022) p. 847 - 868
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/matthew_rimmer/374/