ESSAY QUESTION
8. Critically discuss in general, or with reference to the interpretation of the statutory list of excluded subject matter in patent law:
‘Despite its unpromisingly technical and bureaucratic tone, patent law is politically and socially significant because it constitutes a nexus in which some deep-running anxieties about the relation between ‘nature’ and ‘culture’ are negotiated.’ A. Pottage (1998) ‘The inscription of life in law: genes, patents, and bio-politics’, The Modern Law Review, 61(5), pp. 740-765. [p. 743]
[You may restrict your analysis to a particular type of excluded subject matter; or to a particular requirement of protection.]ESSAY QUESTION
8. Critically discuss in general, or with reference to the interpretation of the statutory list of excluded subject matter in patent law:
‘Despite its unpromisingly technical and bureaucratic tone, patent law is politically and socially significant because it constitutes a nexus in which some deep-running anxieties about the relation between ‘nature’ and ‘culture’ are negotiated.’ A. Pottage (1998) ‘The inscription of life in law: genes, patents, and bio-politics’, The Modern Law Review, 61(5), pp. 740-765. [p. 743]
[You may restrict your analysis to a particular type of excluded subject matter; or to a particular requirement of protection.]