Agriculture and Intellectual Property Rights: Economic, Institutional and Implementation Issues in Biotechnology

Hardback  280 pp  ISBN 0851994571

IPRs are particularly relevant in the field of agricultural biotechnology. They are issues affecting public and private sector organizations and companies, and are significant for developing as well as developed countries.

Readership: Agricultural economists, policy-makers, legal advisers, researchers in plant and animal breeding and biotechnology.

Contents

• Introduction, V Santaniello et al.
• Patent and Other Private Legal Rights for Biotechnology Inventions (Intellectual Property Rights - IPR), D D Evenson, P.L.L.C., Washington, USA
• Intellectual Property Rights of Plant Varieties and of Biotechnology in the European Union, V Santaniello
• Intellectual Property Rights under the Convention on Biological Diversity, W Lesser, Cornell University, USA
• An Economic Approach to Identifying An 'Effective Sui Generis System' for Plant Variety Protection Under TRIPS, W Lesser
• Recent Intellectual Property Rights Controversies and Issues at the CGIAR, S H Bragdon, IPGRI, Rome, Italy
• Economics of Intellectual Property Rights for Agricultural Technology, R E Evenson
• The Market Value of Farmers€ Rights, R Mendelsohn, Yale University, USA
• International Crop Breeding in a World of Proprietary Technology, B D Wright, University of California, USA
• Knowledge Management and the Economics of Agricultural Biotechnology, D Zilberman and C Yarkin, University of California, USA and A Heiman, Hebrew University, Israel
• Comparing Allocation of Resources in Public and Private Research, S Lemarié, Université Pierre-Mendès, Grenoble, France
• Biotechnology Inventions: What Can We Learn From Patents?, D K N Johnson, Wellesley College, Massachusetts, USA and V Santaniello
• Biotechnology Inventions: Patent Data Evidence, A Zohrabyan, Yale University, USA and R E Evenson
• Property Rights and Regulations for Transgenic Crops in North America, G Carlson and M Marra, North Carolina State University, USA
• Intellectual Property Rights, Canola and Public Research in Canada, P W B Phillips, University of Saskatchewan, Canada