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Jorge Goldstein

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I was born in Argentina and raised in a family of European émigrés. I came to the U.S. to study, received my Ph.D. in chemistry from Harvard and then my law degree from George Washington University. It is this diverse mix of cultures, languages, and education that has defined my life as a scientist-attorney and my work as a writer. In the early 1980s I co-founded an intellectual property law firm in Washington DC, where, for forty-six years, I practiced law in the area of biotechnology patents. Many consider me one of the pioneers in the field, having won important law precedents, and written many articles at the edge of science and law. I am the author of U.S. Biotechnology Patent Law, a book on the legal fundamentals of the field, now in its 9th edition. I have taught and lectured all over the world and received multiple awards. In early 2025, I published a professional memoir, entitled Patenting Life, Tales from the Front Lines of Intellectual Property and the New Biology (Georgetown University Press, 2025). It is a first-person narrative for lay readership, which, through professional stories and anecdotes, tells of the role of intellectual property in the rise of commercial biology in the 20th century. It is available in hardcover wherever books are sold and on Kindle from AMAZON. The audiobook version will be coming out on February 18, 2025. My background has given me a keen sensitivity for the problems of disenfranchised and impoverished members of the developing world. As a consequence, I created a pro bono practice in my law firm that represents the intellectual property interests of Native Americans, whether from US Indian Country or from South American tribes. One of these pro bono cases is described in my article, “Protecting rainforest-derived technology equitably,” WIPO Magazine, February 2019.

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Patenting Life

Tales from the Front Lines of Intellectual Property and the New Biology

By: Jorge Goldstein

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins

Release date: 18-02-25

Language: English

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