Do Agricultural Companies that Own Intellectual Property Rights on Seeds and Plant Varieties have a Right-to-Food Responsibility?

scope of intellectual property rights in new plant varieties

accessibility to the improved (breeded) plant varieties is vital for agricultural and horticultural industries. providing food-security for growing population of the world, sustainable agricultural production, need for an increase in agricultural incomes, economic development and improvement are necessary for sustainable efforts in the field of plant breeding and improving. considering the spec...

Intellectual Property Rights and International Trade of Agricultural Products

This paper studies the effect of strengthening intellectual property rights (IPRs) after the signing of the TRIPS on agricultural trade, for the period 1995-2011. It uses data of agricultural exports and a new yearly index of intellectual property (IP) protection, for 60 developed and developing countries. Also, the paper studies bilateral trade links and the intensive and extensive margins of ...

Managerial Approaches to Support Intellectual Property Rights in Museums

Some of the cultural works which are considered as cultural heritage, regardless of their antiquity and precedence, are simultaneously subject of the legal systems of intellectual property rights and cultural heritage law. This situation can lead to a conflict of interest between private ownership and public law which, in turn, may create many problems for the management of cultural heritage wh...

Bibliography on Access to Plant Genetic Resources and Intellectual Property Rights International Plant Genetic Resources Institute

Enforcing Intellectual Property Rights

We study the determinants of patent suits and their outcomes over the period 1978-1999 by linking detailed information from the U.S. patent office, the federal court system, and industry sources. The probability of being involved in a suit is very heterogeneous, being much higher for valuable patents and for patents owned by individuals and smaller firms. Thus the patent system generates incent...