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People, plants and patents : the impact of intellectual property on biodiversity, conservation, trade, and rural society / the Crucible Group.
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Crucible Group.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Germplasm resources, Plant.
- Plant varieties--Protection.
- Plant varieties.
- Plants, Cultivated--Patents.
- Plants, Cultivated.
- Biodiversity conservation.
- Patents.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (142 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Ottawa : International Development Research Centre, c1994.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-84968-1
- 9786610849680
- 1-55250-308-9
- OCLC:
- 923767077
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