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Patenting life? The opportunities for protecting molecular biological inventions in Europe

✍ Scribed by Davies, Jonathan M.

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1998
Tongue
English
Weight
123 KB
Volume
52
Category
Article
ISSN
1526-498X

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✦ Synopsis

When new techniques and concepts allow progress to be made on problems that have long proved to be intractable to established methodologies, this can initially result in over-optimistic expectations of what the new techniques can achieve. The idea that transgenic crop plants could eventually eliminate pesticide use may

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