PATENTING LIFE-FORMS, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS AND GLOBAL ECONOMIC COMPETITIVENESS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: THE PROSPECT FOR AFRICA
As development in the world of intellectual property right gives adequate consideration to the issue of restriction of life-forms against the backdrop of its ethico-cultural, innovative and knowledge implications, the paper examines the restriction of life forms as intellectual property rights vis-à-vis its potentials as veritable economic portal for global competitiveness in the present international […]