Gene patents and collaborative licensing models : patent pools, clearinghouses, open source models, and liability regimes / edited by Geertrui van Overwalle

Patent pooling for gene-based diagnostic testing: conceptual framework / Birgit Verbeure -- Case 1. The MPEG LA licensing model: what problem does it solve in biopharma and genetics? / Lawrence A. Horn -- Case 2. The SARS case: IP fragmentation and patent pools / Carmen E. Correa -- Critical analysis of patent pools / Jorge A. Goldstein -- Clearinghouse mechanisms in genetic diagnostics: conceptual framework / Esther van Zimmeren -- Case 3. The global biodiversity information facility (GBIF): an example of an information clearinghouse / James L. Edwards -- Case 4. BirchBob: an example of a technology exchange clearinghouse / Esther van Zimmeren and Dirk Avau -- Case 5. The public intellectual property resource for agriculture (PIPRA): a standard license public sector clearinghouse for agricultural IP / Alan B. Bennett and Sara Boettiger -- Case 6. The Science Commons Material Transfer Agreement Project: a standard license clearinghouse? / Thinh Nguyen.

Case 7. The collective management of copyright and neighbouring rights: an example of a royalty collection clearing house / Jan Corbet -- Comment on the conceptual framework for a clearinghouse mechanism / Michael Spence -- Open source genetics: conceptual framework / Janet Hope -- Case 8. CAMBIA's Biological Open Source Initiative (BiOS) / Nele Berthels and Richard Jefferson -- Case 9. Diversity Arrays Technology Pty Ltd. (DArT) Applying the open source philosophy in agriculture / Andrzej Kilian -- Critical commentary on 'open source' in the life sciences / Arti K. Rai -- Several kinds of 'should' : Tthe ethics of open source in life sciences innovation / Antony S. Taubman -- Pathways across the valley of death. Novel intellectual property strategies for accelerated drug discovery / Arti K. Rai ... [et al.] -- Case 10. The International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA) : the standard material transfer agreement as implementation of a limited compensatory liability regime / Victoria Henson-Apollonio.

Critical analysis of property rules, liability rules, and molecular futures: bargaining in the shadow of the cathedral / Dan L. Burk -- Gene patents: from discovery to invention, a geneticist's view / Gert Matthijs and Gert-Jan Van Ommen -- 'Patent tsunami' in the field of genetic diagnostics: a patent practitioner's view / Jacques Warcoin -- Gene patents and clearing models: some comments from a competition law perspective / Hanns Ullrich -- Access to genetic patents and clearing models: an economic perspective / Reiko Aoki -- The role of law, institutions, and governance in facilitating access to the scientific research commons: a philosopher's perspective / Tom Dedeurwaerdere -- Of thickets, blocks, and gaps: designing tools to resolve obstacles in the gene patents landscape / Geertrui Van Overwalle.