Agriculture and Intellectual Property Rights : Economic, Institutional and
Implementation Issues in Biotechnology/edited by V. Santaniello, R.E. Evenson,
D. Zilberman and G.A. Carlson. Reprint. Hyderabad, Universities
Press, 2003, x, 260 p., tables, figs., (pbk). ISBN 81-7371-426-6.
Contents: Contributors. Acknowledgements. Introduction/V. Santaniello, R.E. Evenson, D. Zilberman and G.A. Carlson. I. Legal systems: 1. Patent and other private legal rights for biotechnology inventions (Intellectual Property Rights - IPR)/D.D. Evenson. 2. Intellectual Property Rights of plant varieties and of biotechnology in the European union/V. Santaniello. 3. Intellectual Property Rights under the convention on biological diversity/W. Lesser. 4. An economic approach to identifying an 'Effective sui generis System' for plant variety protection under TRIPs/W. Lesser. 5. Recent Intellectual Property Rights controversies and issues at the CGIAR/S.H. Bragdon. II. Economic issues: 6. Economics of Intellectual Property Rights for agricultural technology/R.E. Evenson. 7. The market value of farmers' rights/R. Mendelsohn. 8. International crop breeding in a world of proprietary technology/B.D. Wright. 9. Knowledge management and the economics of agricultural biotechnology/D. Zilberman, C. Yarkin and A. Heiman. 10. Comparing allocation of resources in public and private research/S. Lemarie. III. Biotechnology inventions: 11. Biotechnology inventions: what can we learn from patents?/D.K.N. Johnson and V. Santaniello. 12. Biotechnology inventions: patent data evidence/A. Zohrabyan and R.E. Evenson. IV. Case studies: 13. Property rights and regulations for transgenic crops in North America/G. Carlson and M. Marra. 14. Intellectual property rights, Canola and Public research in Canada/P.W.B. Phillips. Index.
"Plant breeding patents, the ownership of biological innovation and associated Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) are the subject of increased attention worldwide. They are particularly relevant in the field of agricultural biotechnology. They are affecting public and private sector organizations and companies, and are significant for developing as well as developed countries. These issues have until recently evoked little policy analysis. This book presents the perspectives of policy-makers and economists on such issues."