Patent information

These informational articles were prepared by Dr Carol Nottenburg alone or as part of the IP team at Patent Lens (marked with an "*"). 

• "How to read a biotech patent"

• "Top 10 things you should know about patents"*

• "Inventorship vs authorship"*

• "Key agreements on intellectual property"*

• "Plant protection systems"*

• "Quiz on patents"*

Patent landscape analyses

• "Analysis of 'Junk DNA' patents" (July 2004)

The following analyses were prepared by Carol Nottenburg and the IP/IT team at Patent Lens (CAMBIA). 

• "Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of plants" ver. 3 (July 2003)

• "Antibiotic resistance genes and their uses in genetic transformation, especially in plants" (2002)

• "Promoters used to regulate gene expression" (2002)

• "Resistance to phosphinothricin" (2004)

• "Human Telomerase Gene" (2007)

• "The Rice Genome" (2008)

• "Influenza Genome" (2008)

• "Vaccine adjuvants" (2008)

Selected publications

These articles reflect our penchant for the role of patent protection in developing countries and the public sector.   

• "Enola Bean Patent Controversy : Facts and Analysis"  C Nottenburg.  Written for Harvest Choice and distributed by Harold Wegner (2009).

• "Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of plants: A lawyer's perspective."  C Nottenburg and C Roa-Rodriguez.  Chapter 20 in Agrobacterium: From Biology to Biotechnology. T Tzfira, V Citovsky eds. Springer Publishers (2008).

• "How to read a biotech patent."  C Nottenburg.  Chapter 4.2 in Intellectual Property Management in Health and Agricultural Innovation: a handbook of best practices. A Krattiger et al., eds. MIHR and PIPRA (2007).

• "Agricultural Innovation:  Investments and Incentives."  Wright, BD, PG Pardey, C Nottenburg and B Koo.  Chapter 48 in R.E. Evenson, P Pingali, ed. Handbook of Agricultural Economics, vol.3. Amsterdam: Elsevier. pp. 2533-2603 (2007).

• "Plants and Intellectual Property: An International Appraisal." Koo, B, C Nottenburg and PG Pardey; Science 306:1295-1297 (2004).

• "South-North trade, intellectual property jurisdictions, and freedom to operate in agricultural research on staple crops." Binenbaum, E, C Nottenburg, PG Pardey, BD Wright, and P Zambrano; Economic Development & Cultural Change, 51: 309-335 (2003).

• "Intellectual Property Resources for International Development in Agriculture." Delmer, DP, C Nottenburg, GD Graff, and AB Bennett. (2003) Plant Physiology, 133: 1666-1670.

• "Accessing other people's technology for non-profit research." Nottenburg, C, PG Pardey, and BD Wright. (2002) Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 48(3): 389-416.