Biotechnology in agriculture, medicine and industry : an overview / Harikesh B. Singh, Alok Jha and Chetan Keswani -- Biotechnology and its development in developing countries : can intellectual property rights foster innovation in the field? / Dhanay M. Cadillo Chandler -- Patent eligibility issues in life science innovations : contentious court cases / Ananda M. Chakrabarty -- Checks and balances in biotechnology-related patents : in agreement to the Indian Patents (Amendment) Act, 2005 / Om Prakash and Poonam C. Singh -- Intellectual property in biotechnology sector : the importance of "star scientists" in the entrepreneurship and universities environment / Tomas G. Bas -- Intellectual property in agricultural biotechnology : from patent thickets to generics / Monica Alandete-Saez, David J. Jefferson and Alan B. Bennett -- Bioprospecting for improving soil health and crop productivity : Indian patent landscape / Vivek Srivastava, Puneet S. Chauhan, Sankalp Misra, Swati Sharma, Aradhana Mishra and Chandra S. Nautiyal -- Seeds of change : genetically modified crops, Canada's Agricultural Growth Act and the erosion of farmers' privilege / Elisabeth Abergel -- Recent innovations in agricultural biotechnology : challenging the status quo / Kathleen L. Hefferon -- Chinese innovation system : the case of agricultural knowledge sharing / Liliana Mitkova and and Xi Wang -- Intellectual property rights regime for agricultural biotechnology in India / Seweta Srivastava, Sujit K. Yadav, Ravindra Kumar, Ashwani Kumar, Vinit P. Singh, Asha Sinha and Rajendra Kumar -- DNA patenting / Michael Blakeney -- The development of patentability of genetic patent in mainland China and Taiwan / Jui-Chu Lin, Tzu-Hsun Hung and Chien-Te Fan -- Bioprospecting microbial diversity : intellectual property rights issues / Om Prakash, Aabheejeet Pansare and Sunil K. Dhar -- CRISPR/Cas9 system, a revolutionary technology for genome editing : applications and intellectual property disputes / Kartikay Bisen, Chetan Keswani, Akanksha Singh, Rakesh Pandey, Sandhya Mishra, Birichi K.