1. A Closer Look at Patent Troll Demand Letters: A Dangerous Problem that Must Be Fixed
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2013
   We've been talking a good deal lately about the promising Innovation Act. And with good reason — it looks like the best chance we've had for real patent reform that would actually help those getting crushed by the patent system. The bill is not perfect, though, and has at least one glaring error: it does not address the serious harm that comes from patent troll demand letters.
2. Connexions Digest
   Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   Published: 1992
   
3. Electronic Frontier Foundation Urges Supreme Court to Crack Down on Patent Trolls
   Sources News Release
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2014
   Two Big Cases Could Protect Software Innovators – and Their Customers – From Patent Lawsuits
4. Farmers join to save the seeds that feed us
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2015
   Farmers and growers in south-west England have united to reclaim the lost skill of seed saving. They are determined to grow, develop, share and disseminate open-pollinated seeds, and oppose EU laws granting commercial plant breeders a legal monopoly on the seeds that sustain our lives.
5. French farmers will have to pay to use their own seeds
   'Compulsory voluntary contribution' to seed companies extended to 20 more types of crops, and use of saved seeds for other crops banned
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2012
   French government to begin cracking down on enforcing plant breeders' rights -- farmers will have to pay to use farm-saved seed.
6. In the footsteps of Gandhi: an interview with Vandana Shiva
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2016
   Vandana Shiva is more than just a leading scientist, author and campaigner on green issues and anti-globalisation. She is also among the most prominent of Mahatma Ghandi's intellectual heirs. In this interview, she discusses how this led her to be an outspoken voice on such crucial environmental issues as seed legacy, biopiracy and economic injustice.
7. January's Stupid Patent of the Month: A Method of Updating "Grass" in Video Games
   Sources News Release
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2015
   U.S. Patent 8,529,350 - January's Stupid Patent of the Month. The patent -- titled "Method and System for Increased Realism in Video Games" - is owned by Utah-based troll White Knuckle LLC.
8. Living with the Land
   Communities Restoring the Earth
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1992
   A collection of stories from grassroots communities about the benefits of ecological living.
9. New Internationalist
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   New Internationalist reports on issues of world poverty and inequality. We focus attention on the unjust relationship between the powerful and the powerless worldwide in the fight for global justice.
10. Patent Folly
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1995
    The misuse of patents rights and associated dangers.
11. Patent Folly: Another Point of View
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1995
    
12. A Patent on Life: Ownership of Plant and Animal Research
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
    
13. Patenting human life
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1992
    
14. Pharmageddon
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2013
    David Healy's comprehensive argument against the pharmaceuticalization of medicine is an indictment of problems in health care that are leading to a growing number of deaths and disabilities.
15. Private Profits vs Public Policy
    The Pharmaceutical Industry and the Canadian State
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2016
    According to Joel Lexchin, "Given the central role that medicines play in keeping us healthy, it is essential that we understand the policy environment that governs drug development, from the initial basic research to the sale of the manufactured produces to the patients that use them."
16. Stolen Seeds
    The privatisation of Canada's agricultural biodiversity
    Resource Type: Book
    Through patents and other intellectual property regimes, corporate tactics, and government manoeuvering, public goods are being destroyed to make way for private profit. Seed saving and plant breeding practices are being criminalised. This paper provides an overview of the various ways in which this process is happening and discusses some of the consequences.
17. TPP is "Worst Trade Agreement" for Medicine Access, Says Doctors Without Borders
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The TPP [Trans-Pacific Partnership] will…go down in history as the worst trade agreement for access to medicines in developing countries, said Doctors without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in a statement following the signing of the TPP trade deal.
18. Victory: Photo Hobbyist Prevails Over Junk-Patent Bully
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Patent bully Garfum has abandoned its lawsuit against an online photo hobbyist, just one day after a federal judge set the date for a face-off in court against lawyers for the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).
19. Who Owns Life?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1998
    

Experts on Patents/Patenting in the Sources Directory

1. The British Library
2. World Intellectual Property Organization