At the End of Property: Patents, Plants and the Crisis of Propertization

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At The End of Property: Patents, Plants and the Crisis of Propertization
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Dedication
Contents
List of Abbreviations
About the Author
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction
	Propertization and its crises
	Plants and property
	More than law: on the nature of property
	Theory and method: a few notes on genre
	Outline of this book
2 From Rights to Scripts
	The arithmetic of property: one, two or many?
	Revisiting the bundle of rights
	From rules to practices
	A technical matter: towards a bundle of scripts
	Scripts in action
	Conclusion
3 Property and the Market
	Forming seed
	All too commodified
	The passage of property: making goods flow downstream
	Remaking plants to fix the market
	Giving to or taking from the farmer? Seed as a quasi-commodity
	Conclusion
4 Re-inventing Plants
	The other plant intellectual property
	Ambiguous genes
	Mobile genes
	Life before the law
	Plant patents are coming to Europe
	Patents without genes
	Conclusion
5 The Values of Patents
	Rewarding innovation
	All around patents: frames, hedges, thickets
	Rent machines
	Speculative value
	Filling the void
	Cutting back the thicket
	Conclusion
6 Too Much Property
	Running after property: resowing fees
	Going material
	The property of others
	Conclusion
7 At the End of Property
	A crumbling Lockean topology
	After property?
	Conclusion
Notes
	Chapter 1
	Chapter 2
	Chapter 3
	Chapter 4
	Chapter 5
	Chapter 6
	Chapter 7
References
Index