In 2015, hundreds of academics Canada and Australia signed open letters to their respective governments calling for preemptive ban on the development and use of the deadly machines.. ..…

Some drawbacks of the regimes, however, are unavoidable: hence the advocacy in many contributions to the book of deep reforms of the system in both developed and developing countries, including the non-patentability of scientific discoveries, the reduction of the depth and breadth of IPR patents, and the..…