Plants, People and Practices - The Nature and History of the Upov Convention

This book provides the first sustained and detailed account of the UPOV Convention and its key concepts and principles.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction; 2. The emergence of the UPOV Convention: a new context of plant breeding and dissatisfaction with existing forms of protection; 3. UPOV's legitimacy: from members and trade to objectives, structure and norms; 4. Recognising plant breeders, protecting discoveries; 5. The proliferation, politicisation and legalisation of plant varieties; 6. Bringing order and stability to variety denomination; 7. Science isn't enough: genotypes, phenotypes and the utilitarian nature of plant variety rights schemes; 8. Expanding protected material: embedding legal language and practices in the UPOV Convention; 9. Examining and identifying essentially derived varieties: the place of science, law and cooperation; 10. Saving and exchanging seeds: licenses, levies and speculation; 11. The nature of UPOV and the UPOV Convention.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Jay Sanderson is an Associate Professor in Law at the USC Law School, Australia, a member of the Australian Centre for Intellectual Property in Agriculture (ACIPA) and an adjunct with the Law Futures Centre, Griffith University Law School, Queensland. He has published widely on issues of intellectual property, plants and agri-food, and has been cited by Australia's Productivity Commission and Advisory Council on Intellectual Property. He is the co-editor of The Intellectual Property and Food Project: From Rewarding Innovation and Creation to Feeding the World (with Charles Lawson, 2013) and has contributed a chapter to Intellectual Property and Genetically Modified Organisms: A Convergence in Laws (edited by Charles Lawson and Berris Charnley, 2015).

Zusammenfassung

This book provides the first sustained and detailed account of the UPOV Convention and its key concepts and principles.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Jay Sanderson, Sanderson Jay
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781107565548
• ISBN: 978-1-107-56554-8
• Seiten: 356
• Serien: Cambridge Intellectual Property and Information Law; Cambridge Intellectual Propert; Cambridge Intellectual Property and Information Law; Cambridge Intellectual Propert
• Themen: Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Recht > Handels-, Wirtschaftsrecht; LAW / Intellectual Property / General, intellectual property law, Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, International economic & trade law, Public international law: economic and trade, Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes