Rights to Plant Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge: Basic Issues and Perspectives

by Susette Biber-Klemm, Thomas Cottier

Overview

This book discusses the means, instruments and institutions to create incentives to promote conservation and sustainable use of traditional knowledge and plant genetic resources for food and agriculture, in the framework of the world trade order. It approaches these topics on a broad basis: it analyses in depth the option to create specific sui generis intellectual property rights of the TRIPS Agreement It then discusses the ways to support the maintenance of information which cannot be allocated to specific authors, and examines alternative concepts within the trade of traditionally generated information and related products.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780851990330
Publisher:	CABI
Publication date:	08/07/2006
Series:	CABI Series
Edition description:	1ST
Pages:	448
Product dimensions:	6.88(w) x 9.75(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction
Part I General Framework
Problem and Goals
The Current Law of Plant Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge
Intellectual Property Rights, Plant Genetic Resources, and Traditional Knowledge

Part II Towards Sui Generis Rights
Origin and Allocation of Traditional Knowledge and Landraces
Part 1: Origin and Allocation of Traditional Knowledge and traditional PGRFA: Basic Questions
Part 2: Farmers, Landraces, and Property Rights: Challenges to Allocating Sui Generis Intellectual
Property Rights to Communities over their Varieties
A New Generation of IPR for the Protection of Traditional Knowledge in PGR for Food, Agricultural and Pharmaceutical Uses
Flanking Policies in National and International Law

Part III Options for Collective and Trade Policy Measures
New Collective Policies
International Trade Regulation for Plant Genetic Resources and Related Products
Part 1: The Impact on Agricultural Subsidies
Part 2: Enhancing Market Access