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Geneva Phonograms Convention.A 1971 treaty requiring signatories to protect phonorecord producers against piracy and the importation of pirated copies, by copyright protection, unfair-competition law, or criminal sanc-tions. • The treaty was drafted by representatives from WIPO and UNESCO to correct weaknesses in the Rome Convention. — Also termed Convention for the Protection of Producers of…

  Geneva Conventions of 1949 (j<<schwa>>-nee-v<<schwa>>). Four international agreements dealing with the protection of wounded members of the armed forces, the treatment of prisoners of war, and the protection of civilians during international armed conflicts. • Common Article 3 of the Conventions proclaims certain minimum standards of treatment that are applicable to noninternational armed conflicts.…

genetic parent.See biological parent under PARENT. [Blacks Law 8th]

genetic mother.See biological mother under MOTHER. [Blacks Law 8th]

genetic-marker test.A medical method of testing tissue samples used in paternity and illegitimacy cases to de-termine whether a particular man could be the father of a child. • This test represents a medical advance over blood-grouping tests. It analyzes DNA and is much more precise in assessing the probability of paternity. — Abbr. GMT. See…

genetic fingerprinting.See DNA IDENTIFICATION. [Blacks Law 8th]

genetic father.See biological father under FATHER. [Blacks Law 8th]

genetic engineering.A method of creating new life-forms and organic matter by gene-splicing and other tech-niques. • The Supreme Court has ruled that those creations are patentable. Diamond Chakrabarty, 447 U.S. 303, 100 S.Ct. 2204 (1980). [Blacks Law 8th]

genetic child.See natural child (1) under CHILD. [Blacks Law 8th]

generic term.See GENERIC NAME. [Blacks Law 8th]