TY - BOOK AU - Plomer, Aurora AU - Plomer, Aurora AU - Torremans, Paul TI - Embryonic Stem Cell Patents: European law and ethics SN - 9780199543465 U1 - 344.2404196 PY - 2009/// CY - UK PB - Oxford University Press, KW - Embryonic stem cells Research KW - Embryonic stem cells Research European Union countries KW - Embryonic stem cells Research Law and legislation KW - law codes KW - legislative records KW - trademarks N1 - PART I: BACKGROUND 1: The Drafting History of the European Biotechnology Directive PART II: MORALITY, RESEARCH AND ETHICS 2: Towards Commonality? Policy Approaches to Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research in Europe 3: Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research in Central and Eastern Europe: A Comparative Analysis of Regulatory and Policy Approaches 4: Morality Provisions in Law Concerning the Commercialisation of Human Embryos and Stem Cells PART III: EUROPEAN PATENT LAW 5: A Comparative Analysis of the National Implementation of the Directive's Morality Clause 6: The Construction of the Directive's Moral Exclusions under the EPC 7: Towards Systemic Legal Conflict: Article 6(2)(c) of the Biotech Directive 8: Human Dignity, Human Rights and Article 6(1) of the Biotech Directive 9: Jurisdictional and Institutional Aspects of Stem Cell Patenting in Europe (EC and EPO): Institutional and Jurisdictional Tensions of Stem Cells Patenting in Europe 10: A Transnational Institution Confronted with a Single Jurisdiction Model: Guidance for the EPO's Implementation of the Directive from a Private International Law Perspective PART IV: WIDER ISSUES 11: An Ethics Committee for Patent Offices 12: The Research Exemption in Patent Law and its Application to hES Cell Research 13: Human Embryos, Patents and Global Trade: Assessing the Scope and Contents of the TRIPS Morality Exception 14: Stem Cells Patenting and Competition Law ER -