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  • 8 - Bio-legal Subject Matter

  • Brad Sherman, University of Queensland
  • Book:
    Intangible Intangibles
    Published online:
    25 April 2024
    Print publication:
    09 May 2024, pp 191-223
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    This chapter begins by highlighting the notable characteristics of plant-based subject matter and the problems this posed for patent law. It then looks at the way that patent law responded to these problems. Specifically, it looks at how the process of invention was reconfigured to take account of the peculiarities of plant-based subject matter; the role that materiality played in helping the law to draw boundaries around the subject matter; and finally the role that the informed nature of the subject matter played in allowing patent law to deal with plant-based subject matter.