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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822467803321

Titolo

Agriculture and intellectual property rights : economic, institutional, and implementation issues in biotechnology / / edited by V. Santaniello ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Wallingford, Oxon, UK ; ; New York, : CABI Pub., c2000

ISBN

1-280-82895-1

9786610828951

0-85199-710-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 259 pages)

Altri autori (Persone)

SantanielloV

Disciplina

631.5/23

Soggetti

Germplasm resources, Plant

Agricultural biotechnology

Intellectual property

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 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 Convention 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; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 of policy-makers and economists on such issues.