Intellectual Property and Genetically Modified Organisms: A Convergence in Laws

259 Pages·2015·1.248 MB·English

by  Charles Lawson, Berris Charnley

Intellectual ProPerty
and GenetIcally ModIfIed orGanIsMs
Charles Lawson – for CP and Victoria
Berris Charnley – for Marija, ‘Death doesn’t Bargain.’
Intellectual Property and
Genetically Modified Organisms
A Convergence in Laws
Edited by
charles lawson
Griffith Law School, Griffith University, Australia
BerrIs charnley
St Anne’s College, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
© Charles Lawson and Berris Charnley 2015
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Intellectual property and genetically modified organisms : a convergence in laws / by
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4724-4345-8 (hardback) -- ISBN 978-1-4724-4346-5 (ebook) -- ISBN 978-
1-4724-4347-2 (epub) 1. Genetically modified foods--Law and legislation. 2. Intellectual
property. 3. Plants, Cultivated--Patents. I. Lawson, Charles, editor. II. Charnley, Berris,
editor.
K3927.I58 2015
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2014031727
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Contents
List of Tables vii
List of Cases ix
Notes on Contributors xi
Acknowledgements xiii
List of Abbreviations xv
1 Intellectual Property and Genetically Modified Organisms 1
Berris Charnley and Charles Lawson
2 Cui bono? Gauging the Successes of Publicly-funded
Plant Breeding in Retrospect 7
Berris Charnley
3 ‘The Story of a Love Spurned’: Monsanto in the United
Republic of Soy 27
Stephen Hubicki
4 Competition in the Agricultural Seeds Sector:
Patents and Competition at a Cross-roads? 81
Charles Lawson
5 Regulating for Traditional Innovation in Agricultural
Organisms 103
Karinne Ludlow
6 Myriad Genetics and the Remaining Uncertainty
for Biotechnology Inventions 123
Dianne Nicol
7 Just Label It: Consumer Rights, GM Food Labelling
and International Trade 143
Matthew Rimmer
8 Unnaturally Natural: Inventing and Eating Genetically
Engineered AquAdvantage® Salmon and the Paradox of Nature 185
Jay Sanderson and Fran Humphries
vi Intellectual Property and Genetically Modified Organisms
9 Information About Information About Information:
GMOs and Law as a ‘Flexible Technology’ 209
Kieran Tranter
Index 225
List of Tables
3.1 Genealogy of Art 9 79
4.1 Commercial uncontrolled released GMOs in Australia up
to 2013. This table is compiled from the licenses granted for
the uncontrolled release of GMOs into the environment by
the Gene Technology Regulator under the Gene Technology
Act 2000 (Cth) 101
6.1 Summary of decisions in the AMP case 130
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List of Cases
Amgen Inc v. Chugai Pharmaceutical Company 13 USPQ2d 737 (Federal Circuit,
Massachusetts District 1989) 127
Arnusch and Chapman v. Cooper and Gray (2014) Colorado Supreme Court, Case
Number L 2013SA335 160n112
Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc. S.Ct. 2107
(2013) 4, 23, 23nn59, 26, 124nn11, 131n32, 131n33, 132n38, 132n39,
133n43, 133n44, 137n68, 187n9, 200n72
Beecham Group Ltd v. Bristol Laboratories Ltd (1978) R.P.C. 153 72
Bowman v. Monsanto Company Co. 133 S.Ct. 1761 (2013) 3, 7–11, 12n12,
12n13, 20, 20n47, 21, 21n48, 22, 22n52, 22n53, 23–4, 24n61, 25–6, 90, 90n70,
91, 91n79, 91n80, 92, 92n83
Cancer Voices v. Myriad Genetics, Inc. [2013] FCA 65 129
Carrie Buck v. John Hendren Bell, Superintendent of State Colony for Epileptics
and Feeble Minded, 274 U.S. 200, (1927) 23, 23n56
Diamond v. Chakrabarty 447 U.S. 303 (1980) 81, 81n2, 87n46, 123, 125n13,
134n48, 194, 194n46, 199, 200n72, 200n73
Funk Brothers Seed Co. v. Kalo Inoculant Co. 333 U.S. 127 (1948) 139, 193,
194n46, 194
Harvard College v. Canada (Commissioner of Patents) (2002) 4 S.C.R
45 141n91, 141
Hooper v. Kirella Pty Ltd (1999) 96 FCR 1 216–17
International Dairy Foods Association v. Jeffrey Amestoy, Attorney General of
Vermont 92 F.3d 67 (1996) 154
JEM Ag Supply v. Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc., 534 U.S. 124 (2001) 81,
87, 124n6, 124
JT International SA v. Commonwealth of Australia (2012) HCA 43 (5 October
2012) 156n83, 156
Mallinckrodt, Inc. v. Medipart, Inc. 976 F 2d 700 (1992) 89, 89n61, 90n68
Mayo Collaborative Services v. Prometheus Laboratories, Inc. 132 S. Ct. 1289
(2012) 4, 132, 132n34, 136, 136n57, 136n37, 138, 141
Monsanto Canada, Inc. v. Schmeiser [2004] 1 S.C.R. 902 55, 70, 141n91
Monsanto Company v. Bowman 657 F. 3d 1341(2011) 90, 91n77, 91n78
Monsanto Company v. Bowman 686 F.Supp.2d 834 (2009) 90n71, 90n72, 90n73,
90n74
Monsanto Company v. McFarling 302 F.3d 1291 (2002) 10n7, 88, 88n50, 89n58
Monsanto Company v. Scruggs 459; F.3d 1328 (2006) 10, 10n7, 89, 89n63,
90–1, 91n76