This book integrates a science and business approach to provide an introduction and an insider view of intellectual property issues within the biotech industry, with case studies and examples from developing economy markets. Broad in scope, this book covers key principles in pharmaceutical, industrial, and agricultural biotechnology within four parts. Part 1 details the principles of intellectual property and biotechnology. Part 2 covers plant biotechnology, including biotic and abiotic stress tolerance, GM foods in sustainable agriculture, microbial biodiversity and bioprospecting for improving crop health and productivity, and production and regulatory requirements of biopesticides and biofertilizers. The third part describes recent advances in industrial biotechnology, such as DNA patenting, and commercial viability of the CRISPR/Cas9 system in genome editing. The final part describes intellectual property issues in drug discovery and development of personalized medicine, and vaccines in biodefence. This book is an ideal resource for all postgraduates and researchers working in any branch of biotechnology that requires an overview of the recent developments of intellectual property frameworks in the biotech sector.

Contributions by: Dhanay M Cadillo Chandler, Kartikay Bisen, Akanksha Singh, Rakesh Pandey, Birinchi Sarma, Ananda M. Chakrabarty, Om Prakash, Poonam C. Singh, Tomas Gabriel Bas, Alan B Bennett, Monica Alandete-Saez, David J Jefferson, Elisabeth Abergel, Kathleen Hefferon, Liliana Mitkova, Xi Wang, Michael Blakeney, Sunil K Dhar, Aabheejeet Pansare, Graham Dutfield, Jiang Li, Cristina Possas, Adelaide Antunes, Flavia Mendes, Reinaldo Martins, Akira Homma, Kanikaram Satyanarayana, Chandra Nautiyal, Vivek Srivastava, Puneet Chauhan, Sankalp Misra, Swati Sharma, Aradhana Mishra, Tzu-Hsun Hung, Jui-Chu Lin, Chien-Te Fan, Seweta Srivastava, Sujit K Yadav, Ravindra Kumar, Ashwani Kumar, Vinit Singh, Asha Sinha, Rajendra Kumar