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Record Nr.

UNINA9910824682803321

Titolo

People, plants and patents : the impact of intellectual property on biodiversity, conservation, trade, and rural society / / the Crucible Group

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ottawa, : International Development Research Centre, c1994

ISBN

1-280-84968-1

9786610849680

1-55250-308-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (142 p.)

Disciplina

333.95/316

Soggetti

Germplasm resources, Plant

Plant varieties - Protection

Plants, Cultivated

Biodiversity conservation

Patents

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; Preface; Acknowledgments; Executive Summary; The Policy Environment; Nurturing Diversity; Diversifying Innovation; Divining the Trade Options; 1. Policy; The Growing Importance of Plant Biodiversity; The Changing Role of Intellectual Property; The Place of Innovation; The Human Context; Different Viewpoints; 2. Plants; Plant Genetic Erosion; National Conservation Strategies; International Strategies; The Convention on Biological Diversity; Different Viewpoints; 3. People; Community Innovation; National (Public and Private) Innovation; 4. Patents; GATT and Agricultural Biodiversity

The Patent OptionThe UPOV Option; Sui Generis Possibilities; The Special Case of International Centres; Different Viewpoints; Appendices; 1. A Brief Chronology of the Patent Debate in the North; 2. The Biodiversity Convention; 3. TRIPS - Trade-Related IP; 4. National-International Seed Enterprises: Perspective from the Private Sector; 5. Comparison of Main Provisions of PBR under UPOV 1978 and 1991, and Patent Law; 6. Patents on Plants; 7. Trade Secrets and Material Transfer



Agreements; Glossary; Acronyms; Bibliography

Sommario/riassunto

The recent GATT agreement and the Biodiversity Convention have moved intellectual property rights to the centre of South-North relations. Decisions about intellectual property, particularly for plant life,have major implications for food security, agriculture, rural development,and the environment for every country in the South and the North. For the South, in particular, the impact of intellectual property on farmers, rural societies, and biological diversity will be profoundly important.