Agriculture and intellectual property rights [ economic, institutional, and implementation issues in biotechnology

Plant breeding patents, the ownership of biological innovation and associated intellectual property rights (IPR) are the subject of increased attention worldwide. Particularly relevant to the field of biotechnology, this book presents the perspectives o policy-makers and economists on such issues.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Santaniello, V.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Wallingford, Oxon, UK : CABI , c2000
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Online Access:https://www.cabi.org/cabebooks/FullTextPDF/2000/20001814192.pdf
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Patent and other private legal rights for biotechnology inventions (intellectual property rights - IPR)
  • 2. Intellectual property rights of plant varieties and of biotechnology in the European Union
  • 3. Intellectual property rights under the convntion on biological diversity
  • 4. An economic approach to identifying an 'effective sui generis system' for plant variety protection under TRIPs
  • 5. Recent intellectual property rights controversies and issues at the CGIAR
  • 6. Economics of intellectual property rights for agricultural technology
  • 7. The market value of farmers' rights
  • 8. International crop breeding in a world of proprietary technology
  • 9. Knowledge management and the economics of agricultural biotechnology
  • 10. Comparing allocation of resources in public and private research
  • 11. Biotechnology inventions: what can we learn from patents?
  • 12. Biotechnology inventions : patent data evidence
  • 13. Property rights and regulations for transgenic crops in North America
  • 14. Intellectual property rights, Canola and Public Research in Canada