The institution of university science research has evolved over the past century, from one of
open science and free information to one of competition and jealously guarded intellectual …

The TRIPS Agreement can be read to reflect a static view of the structure of intellectual
property law. In this paper, we address whether–and how–the TRIPS Agreement can, on the …

Control of scientific information is increasingly at the center of legal and administrative
disputes, raising questions of sovereignty and secrecy, of proprietary rights over research …

The field of intellectual property (IP) law today is focused, as the name itself advertises, on
one particular institutional approach to scientific and cultural production: IP. When legal …

The Human Genome Project provides fertile ground for studying the role of intellectual
property at the wavering boundary between public and private research science. It involves …

My argument in this introductory chapter is that the public nature of science is changing in a
twofold way: one is through the increasing propertization of scientific data, what constitutes …

The progress of scientific and technological knowledge is a cumulative process, one that
depends in the long-run on the rapid and widespread disclosure of new findings, so that …

Intellectual property rights (IPRs) are increasingly significant elements of economic policy:
they are vital to developed countries in an age of global trade. Today's astounding new …

There is a serious threat that ill-considered government support for expanding legal means
of controlling access to information for the purpose of extracting private economic rents is …

See BERNARD BARBER, SCIENCE AND THE SOCIAL ORDER 95 (1953). Because basic
research is relatively theoretical in nature, a significant period of time may elapse before …