Agricultural biotechnology and intellectual property : seeds of change /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2007.
• Subjects: Intellectual property.; Agricultural biotechnology > Patents.; Laws and Regulations.; Agricultural Economics.; Policy and Planning.; Biotechnology (General), (Revised June 2002); Agribusiness.; Biotechnology.; Government policy.; Intellectual property rights.; Law.; Electronic books.
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This book discusses the legal, agribusiness and public policy issues that connect intellectual property protection with advancements in agricultural biotechnology. It has 24 chapters and a subject index. The book is intended as a reference for students and practitioners in intellectual property and...

Table of Contents:

• Agricultural innovation after the diffusion of intellectual property protection / B. Wright
• Seed biotechnology, intellectual property and global agricultural competitiveness / P.D. Goldsmith, D.K. Nauriyal and W. Peng
• History and trends in agricultural biotechnology patent law from a litigator's perspective / E.J. Sease
• Rules versus standards for patent law in the plant sciences / M.D. Janis
• Constitutional implications of state seed-saving statutes / A.B. Endres
• Patented inventions and externalities : Hohfeldian legal relationships as they apply to pollen drift and other inadvertent use / M.M. Banik and P.J. Thomassin
• Legal constraint of genetic use restriction technologies / D.L. Burk
• Cereal offenders : access and equity in trade negotiations on knowledge resources / A. Taubman
• Public provision of knowledge for policy research : the agricultural biotechnology intellectual property database / J.L. King and P.W. Heisey
• Network analysis for interpreting patent data : a preliminary, visual approach / W. Lesser and C. Gomes
• The impact of intellectual property rights in the plant and see industry / T. Dhar and J. Foltz
• Dynamic pricing mechanism to achieve pareto optimality in a seed production contract / S. Umeno and J.P. Kesan
• The economic incentive to innovate in plants : patents and plant breeders' rights / G. Moschini and O. Yerokhin
• The strength and structure of intellectual bio-property markets / S. Buccola and Y. Xia
• Insecure Property rights and plant varieties : the effects on the market for seeds and on farmers in Argentina / J.P. Kesan and A.A. Gallo
• The regulatory regime and its impact on innovation activities in agro-food biotechnology in the EU and USA / K. Menrad
• The political economy of intellectual property : re-examining European policy on plant biotechnology / G.D. Graff and D. Zilberman
• Reality and problems of plant protection under patent law and seed and seedling laws in Japan / Y. Hiraki
• Plant variety protection in the Republic of Korea / K.-S. Yoon
• Economic impact assessment of intellectual property rights regulation : the case of Egypt / J.F. Oehmke and K.M. Maredia
• Social and economic consequences of genetic use restriction technologies in developing countries / G. Dutfield
• Agricultural biotechnology under TRIPS and beyond : addressing social policies in a pro-patent environment / C.M. Ho
• To sow or not to sow : dilemmas in creating new rights in food / S. Ragavan
• Biodiversity and biotechnology : a misunderstood relationship / J. Chen.