PLANT VARIETY PROTECTION IN AFRICA: TOWARDS COMPLIANCE WITH THE TRIPS AGREEMENT

Unfair competition under the TRIPS agreement: protection of data submitted for the registration of pharmaceuticals.

Scrutinized: The TRIPS Agreement and Public Health

The World Trade Organization's (WTO's) Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) of 1994 seeks to implement a uniform set of intellectual property protection across member nations to provide greater stability in international economic relations. Critics argue that the TRIPS agreement provides unnecessarily strong protection of intellectual property rights which ...

Patenting Life Forms: Issues Surrounding the Plant Variety Protection Act

INTRODUCTION ket structure can be maintained concurrent with a patent system. The first is public perception. This paper examines the issues surrounding The patent is not viewed as government regulathe patenting of life forms, specifically the social tion with a purpose, but as a fundamental part of and private costs and benefits of the Plant Varithe institution of private property; not as the ...

Plant Variety Protection: A Consideration of Genetic Relationships

Increased interest and debate over ownership of intellectual property (e.g., plant proprietary rights) has arisen in agriculture because the protection of research products is necessary to provide incentive for investment. Any unique, documentable invention (a product, service, or process) having potential use in commerce can be considered intellectual property. Intellectual property is any rec...

Impact of Plant Variety Protection on Indian Seed Industry§

This paper has examined the pattern of protection of plant varieties and the early impact of plant variety protection (PVP) on Indian seed industry. The results have shown a positive response by all the actors involved in seed provision, viz. public research institutes, private seed companies, and farmers in terms of participation in protection of varieties. To measure the concentration of priv...