Seed Wars is a comprehensive overview of the current domestic and international legal controversies regarding intellectual property protections for plant genetic resources (PGRs) over the past three decades. This book examines these controversies on 3 fronts: (1) the rise of intellectual property protections for plant varieties and the enclosure of the genetic commons; (2) the subsequent move of the agro-chemical industry from manufacturing fertilizers, pesticides, and herbicides to manufacturing seeds in the context of industrial agriculture; and (3) the emergence of overlapping regimes of domestic and multilateral treaties such as the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property (TRIPS, 1994), the Convention on Biodiversity (CBD, 1992) and the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources (ITPGR, 2004) from the 1990s on. Finally, this book speculates on possible directions that intellectual property protection for PGRs may take in the 21st century. While intellectual property protection for plants has been available in the United States since 1930, the decade of the 1960s saw the rise of Plant Variety Protections in Europe and by 1980, the U.S. Supreme Court embraced the idea that living organisms could be patented, paving the way for new plant varieties to receive utility patent protection in the U.S.
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"Seed Wars provides an excellent overview of the issues and suggests a range of options to overcome the ill effects of expanding intellectual property rights on access to plant genetic resources, seeds and plant varieties. Aoki does a nice job of drawing the linkage between IPRs and PGRs, without suggesting a return to the old Common Heritage system or arguing for a revision in the current IP regime." --Law & Politics Book Review
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Keith Aoki is a professor of law at the University of Oregon School of Law.
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development divide, material transfer agreements, sovereign national property, public plant breeders, private seed industry, private plant breeders, utility patent protection, public breeders, private seed companies, plant genetic diversity, plant germplasm, participatory plant breeding, sexually reproduced plants, equitable benefit sharing, canola plants, patent misuse, crop genetic diversity, plant genetic resources, supra note, utility patents, patent statute, open source software movement, patented gene, patentable subject matter, sui generis system Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Green Revolution, United States, Third World, Seed Wars, Cary Fowler, Pioneer Hi-Bred, Traditional Terms, Justice Thomas, Biological Diversity, Farm Advantage, New Dilemmas, Regime Shifting, Supreme Court, Tragedy of the Commons, Patent Office, Patent Act, Monsanto Canada, General Public License, North America, International Covenant, International Undertaking, World Trade Organization, Yochai Benkler, The International Treaty, Funk Bros Browse Sample Pages:
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