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SUMMARY:Patents and the Challenge of ‘Sharewaring’ in Post-Genomic Bio
 science or …The Strange Case of Betty Crocker and The Mouse - Bronwyn Pa
 rry (Queen Mary\, University of London)
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CONTACT:Elaine Giles
DESCRIPTION:Biotechnology has recently become populated with all manner of
  'queer' assemblages: the stem cell line\, chimeras\, technologically enha
 nced human beings and the subject of this paper - model mice. These mice\,
  which are central to the performance of contemporary bioscience\, are dis
 tinct from their historical precursors in several ways. Rather than being 
 constructed as a finished 'product' to be covetously controlled as a singl
 e piece of tangible intellectual property\, the engineered mouse and mouse
  model colonies from which they are drawn are now conceived of\, and opera
 te as\, a vital research space or laboratory within which to continually e
 xperiment on the 'software' of mammalian genetics and phonotypical associa
 tions. In this paper I consider how protection of these assemblages is now
  and could be effected through the application of alternative forms of IPR
  to the patent including by branding and trademarking and sharewaring. In 
 so doing I compare how such instruments have been applied in other industr
 ial sectors and reflect on the implications that these developments could 
 have for the re-valorization of the commons in the realm of biological res
 ource use.
LOCATION:Room 101 (Hardy Building\, Downing Site)
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