TY - BOOK AU - Mills,Oliver TI - Biotechnological inventions: moral restraints and patent law SN - 9780754677741 U1 - 346.0486 22 PY - 2010/// CY - Farnham, Surrey, Burlington, VT PB - Ashgate Pub. KW - Biotechnology KW - Patents KW - Patent laws and legislation KW - Europe KW - United States KW - Biotechnology industries KW - Law and legislation N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-211) and index; Biotechnological inventions : the moral debate -- Development of a European and UK moral regime -- Development of patent law in the United States -- Application of Article 53 European Patent Convention -- Patent law criteria and biotechnological inventions -- Protection conferred in the United States -- Protection conferred under the Biotechnology Directive 1998 -- Plant variety protection : UPOV, community, directive -- Recent EU initiatives : likely impact on moral concerns ER -