William Lesser

• Intellectual property rights in agriculture
• Animal patents
• Marketing livestock and meat
• Sustainable use of genetic resources under the Convention on Biological Diversity
• American business regulation
• An approach for securing rights to indigenous knowledge
• Animal Patents
• Commercial applications and economic impact of patented animals
• Institutional mechanisms supporting trade in genetic materials
• International treaties and other legal and economic issues relating to the ownership and use of genetic resources
• Livestock Marketing
• Modifications in intellectual property rights law and effects on agricultural research