Intellectual Property Law

Facilitating Species Migration: Adapting to Climate Change & Benefiting Biodiversity

Posted on November 27, 2007
IPCC's recently completed Fourth Assessment Report paints a grim picture of climate change impacts (the summary of the synthesis report is available here). IPCC Working Group II?s contribution estimates: ?on average 20% to 30% of species assessed are likely to be at increasingly high risk of extinction from climate change impacts possibly within this century as global mean temperatures exceed 2°C to 3°C relative to pre-industrial levels...

Will the FDA Bar The Door When Stem Cells Produced From Therapeutic Cloning Come Knocking?

Posted on November 26, 2007
Semos (named after the god in Planet of the Apes) is the rhesus monkey who donated the skin cells used in the therapeutic cloning study. David Cyranoski summarizes two exciting new studies in his article "Race to Mimic Human Embryonic Stem Cells:" Two much-anticipated scientific firsts announced this week bring the dream of regenerative medicine a step closer...

The avian cost of environmentally friendly architecture

Posted on November 24, 2007
Environmentally friendly buildings are often bird killers, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.The Mathematics and Science Building, one of Emory University's most environmentally friendly buildings and a hallmark of that school's environmental efforts, has been described as an "avian slaughterhouse...

Happy Thanksgiving

Posted on November 21, 2007
A nice image, by way of Feminist Law Professors.

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Brain Waves Reveal Intensity of Pain: Neural Signal Offers Objective Measure of Subjective Experience.

Posted on November 18, 2007
On the Neuroethics & Law Blog several months ago, Adam Kolber posted the following:A couple of days ago, the NYT ran an article on the use of real-time functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to treat pain and perhaps a host of other symptoms like addiction and depression...

Biolaw: Law At The Frontiers Of Biology

Posted on November 06, 2007
The Kansas Law Review 2007 Symposium - Biolaw: Law at the Frontiers of BiologyThe past several years have presented a bewildering array of legal issues raising more questions than answers. Should the Food and Drug Administration approve cloned meat for consumption? Are humans patentable? Is it legal for patients to have access to developmental drugs? Should the law allow parents to halt their daughter?s growth using modern scientific techniques? What is the legal status of partial-birth abortion? Are stem cell research and genetic human enhancement legal? How can the current devastating loss of biodiversity be reversed? The recent explosion of the life sciences and biotechnology has challenged traditional laws, and public opinion concerning proper solutions is far from uniform...

The peacock's tail

Posted on October 24, 2007
On a blog called BioLaw, what could be more appropriate than an image of the peacock and his tail in its full splendor?Hat tip to Beyond the Fringe.

Sharing With CIRM Makes Biotech Squirm

Posted on October 10, 2007
The California Institute of Regenerative Medicine ("CIRM"), the now famous institute devoted to promoting embryonic stem cell ("ESC") research, proposed regulations earlier this year that seek to govern how patents, and the revenues they protect, are to be shared between CIRM and the organizations that receive its grants...

Mes cours de bio

Posted on October 02, 2007
Mon dieu, quel vidéo!Version françaiseVersion anglaisePendant mes cours d' SVT en terminaleil y avait une fille assise à mes côtéscomme elle était femelle et que j'étais un mâle,j'ai décidé d'en faire ma fiancée.Mais n'ayant rien suivi de mes cours de bioPour me faire remarquer j'ai fait l'idiot:Je me suis penché vers elle et j'ai déclaréles mots suivants, un peu comme ils venaient:Oh,tel un coccolitophoridécoincé entre le tertiaire et le crétacéles systoles de mon coeur affolém'ont fait comprendre que tu es ma dulcinée...

Name Your Price And Price Your Name

Posted on September 15, 2007
Organisms named after people abound. Thomson's Gazelle (Gazella thomsoni), Heller's Blazingstar (Liatris helleri), and Hungerford's Crawling Water Beetle (Brychius hungerfordi) all advertise their discoverers or honorees in their species name - the second part of their Linnean binomial - instead of supplying useful biological information to supplement their genus name...

Neuroeconomics, Law and Emotions

Posted on August 30, 2007
So, how could neuroeconomics affect law? See, e.g., Terrence Chorvat, Kevin McCabe, Vernon Smith, Law and Neuroeconomics, 13 The Supreme Court Economic Review 35 (2005); Terrence Chorvat and Kevin McCabe, The Brain and the Law, 359 Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, B: Biological Sciences, 1727 (2004); Terrence Chorvat and Kevin McCabe, The Neuroeconomics of Rationality, 80 Chicago Kent Law Review 1235 (2005); and Jedediah Purdy, The Promise (and Limits) of Neuroeconomics, 58 Alabama Law Review 1 (2006)...

A New Book About Neuroeconomics

Posted on August 29, 2007
I just received from Amazon.com a copy of Your Money and Your Brain: How the New Science of Neuroeconomics Can Help Make You Rich by financial journalist Jason Zweig. We met last Sept. during the annual conference for the Society for Neuroeconomics. He mentioned this book & e-mailed a draft manuscript of it...

Beyond Food and Evil

Posted on August 05, 2007
This is lecture of mine published at 56 Duke L.J. 1581 (2007), and posted on SSRN at http://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=1005001:The mass marketing of foods derived from organisms modified through recombinant DNA technology has put extreme pressure on the interpretation and implementation of the United States' basic food safety law, the venerable Food, Drug & Cosmetic Act...

Lula Discovers The Rainforest

Posted on August 02, 2007
Since he was elected President of Brazil in 2003, the policies of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva have generally failed to see both the forest and the trees of the Amazon. Brazil hosts the greatest wonder of the sylvan world: the Amazon rainforest. This vast forest is the largest remaining rainforest on earth, and the last refuge of up to a third of all living taxa...

Law, Ethics, and the Life Sciences at the University of Louisville

Posted on July 10, 2007
The University of Louisville's Brandeis School of Law - whose new dean is BioLaw luminary James Chen - has announced that it will hold the first annual conference on Law, Ethics, and the Life Sciences on October 26-27, 2007. Topics and scholars will span the fields of law, environmental science, information technology, health sciences, and bioethics, exploring both connections and divisions between these disciplines...

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