Introduction - patents - an ethical crisis. Part 1 The role of patents in history: patents as instruments of conquest patents as rewards for inventiveness patents as instruments for technology transfer, catching up and import monopolies patents and control over the global economy. Part 2 The myth of patents: the myth of stimulating creativity the myth of technology transfer, innovation and R the myth of knowledge generation of spies, crime and IPRs. Part 3 Threats to biodiversity: the enclosure of the commons. Part 4 Biopiracy: what is biopiracy: stealing from the pharmacy of the poor stealing from the farms of our farmers stealing nature's pesticide resolving biopiracy. Part 5 Can seed be owned?: seeds - the ultimate gift seed legislation patents on plants patents on seed - terminating germination. Part 6 Profiteering from disease. Part 7 Democracy or dictatorship?: trade related intellectual property rights (TRIPS) TRIPS and patents on plants TRIPS and biodiversity TRIPS and patent laws in India. Part 8 The way forward: TRIPS reform and review farmers' rights as community rights - the sui generis system intellectual property rights reform.
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