Aspen Publishers, Inc.

Biotechnology and pharmaceutical patents; law and practice; 2v. (CD-ROM included)

Biotechnology patent law and pharmaceutical law (referred to in this text as "BioPharma") are relatively new concepts, and there's a dearth of information on its practical aspects. This two-volume handbook (bound as 3-ring binders) fills the gap, presenting summaries of the law with a focus on practical advice and focus on the specific aspect or type of case the reader intends to research. Chapters are devoted to the novelty requirement, nonobviousness, formal standards of patentability, restriction and double patenting, definitions of inequitable conduct, how to write a BioPharma patent application, how and when to file it, identifying the inventors, and post-grant procedures, among other topics. An initial chapter describes specific examples of patentable subject matter, including living things. Vol.2 describes how to obtain or enforce BioPharma patents and their regulations in Canada, China, the EU, India, and Japan. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Health care law and ethics, 7th ed.

Feeling that health care law as an academic discipline has been defined more by a haphazard accretion of topics drawn from historical developments than by any systematic conceptualization of the issues, Hall (law and public health, Wake Forest U., US), Bobinski (U. of British Columbia Faculty of Law, Canada), and Orentlicher (Indiana U. School of Law, US) call for a fundamental rethinking of the field organized according to the fundamental structural relationships that give rise to health care law: the patient/physician relationship, encompassing the duty to treat, confidentiality, informed consent, and malpractice; state oversight of doctors and patients, encompassing the right to die, reproductive rights, physician licensure, and public health; and the institutions that surround the treatment relationship, encompassing public and private insurance, hospitals and health management organizations, and more complex transactions and organizational forms. This idea provides the structure for their law school text on health care law, which addresses traditional themes of quality, ethics, access, and cost within each area as well such topics as AIDS, genetics, managed care, and rationing, integrating the treatment of each within their larger conceptual structure, rather than discussing them as discrete topics. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Regulating Internet abuses; invasion of privacy.

The general report and 11 country reports address issues of internet privacy in a number of countries and were presented at the 17th Congress of the International Academy of Comparative Law, held in Utrecht, the Netherlands, in July 2006. Some of the country reports were also included in the comprehensive country volumes that emerged from the conference, but the authors had the opportunity to revise those before they were published here. Among the topics are enforcement in Denmark, the French legal front, the specific and explicit consent requirement in Germany, spam filters in South Africa, and Britain's Electronic Commerce Directive. A short notice even reports the laughable efforts to protect privacy in the US. There is no index. Distributed in the US by Aspen Publishers, Incorporated. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)