Owning scientific and technical information : value and ethical issues / edited by Vivian Weil and John W. Snapper.

New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [1989], ©1989.

x, 309 pages ; 24 cm

Includes index.

General overview of the intellectual property system / Rochelle Cooper Dreyfuss -- Patents in complex contexts : incentives and effectiveness / Sidney G. Winter -- Recent changes in the patent law that affect inventorship and ownership / Patrick D. Kelly -- Ethical issues in proprietary restrictions on research results / Alan H. Goldman -- Patenting and academic research : historical case studies / Charles Weiner -- Biotechnology, plant breeding, and intellectual property : social and ethical dimensions / Frederick H. Buttel and Jill Belsky -- Appendix : agrigenetics and agricultural genetics / Jack Kloppenburg -- Reverse engineering software under copyright law : the IBM PC BIOS / Duncan M. Davidson -- Innovation and competition : conflicts over intellectual property rights in new technologies / Pamela Samuelson.

Patenting microorganisms : threats to openness / A.J. Lemin -- Patenting body parts : a sketch of some moral issues / Carl F. Cranor -- Moral foundations of intellectual property rights / Arthur Kuflik -- Patents, natural rights, and natural property / Michael Davis -- Commentary : legal and ethical issues / Gerald Dworkin -- The university, scientific research, and the ownership of knowledge / Leonard G. Boonin -- The intellectual property literature : a structured approach / Patrick Croskery -- A selected annotated bibliography of the intellectual property literature / Patrick Croskery.

Bibliography: p. 283-300.