Intellectual property rights in agricultural biotechnology /

During the past twenty-five years, biotechnology has revolutionized agricultural research. The enormous potential, together with a landmark decision by the US Supreme Court to allow the patenting of genetically-engineered organisms has encouraged private sector companies to invest in agricultural bi...

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Other Authors: Erbisch, Frederic H., Maredia, Karim M.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Wallingford, Oxon, UK ; Cambridge, Mass. : CABI Pub., 2004
Edition:2nd ed.
Series:Biotechnology in agriculture series ; 28.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction to intellectual properties / Brian L. Smiler and Frederic H. Erbisch
  • Acquiring protection for improved germplasm and inbred lines / John H. Barton
  • Transferring intellectual properties / Frederic H. Erbisch and Andrew J. Fischer
  • Capacity building in intellectual property management in agricultural biotechnology / Karim M. Maredia and Frederic H. Erbisch
  • Plant variety protection in the USA / Janice M. Strachan
  • Farmers' rights over plant genetic resources in the South : challenges and opportunities / Kirit Patel
  • Economic aspects of intellectual property rights in agricultural biotechnology / Mywish K. Maredia, James F. Oehmke and Derek Byerlee
  • Egypt / Atef El-Azab
  • South Africa / Rosemary A. Wolson
  • Australia / Michael Blakeney
  • China / Tan Loke-Khoon
  • Issues on intellectual property rights associated with agrobiotechnology in Japan / Kazuo N. Watanabe and Atushi Komamine
  • India / Prabuddha Ganguli
  • Intellectual property rights in the Russian Federation / Terry A. Young and Dmitry Shulgin
  • Andean Pact countries of Latin America / Walter R. Jaffe and Elinor Arteaga-Marcano
  • Costa Rica / Silvia Salazar
  • European Union / R. Stephen Crespi
  • Indonesia / Tantono Subagyo
  • Exercising intellectual property rights management in Brazil : research, technology, transfer and agribusiness after TRIPS / Maria Jose Amstalden Sampio, Margareth Maia and Elza Angela B. Brito da Cunha.