Access to plant genetic resources and intellectual property rights

Access to plant genetic resources and intellectual property rights

Year of publication 1999

Author Office of Assistant Director-General (Natural Resources Management and Environment Department)

Product type Meeting

Category Meeting document

Edition 1

Meeting symbol Background Study Paper No.8

Language English

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Intellectual property rights in plant varieties
International legal regimes and policy options for national governments
2004

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The study provided an overvier of the international intellectual property system regulating plant varieties. It identifies the essential features of this system, including the policies supporting the grant of intellectual property rights (IPRs) and the societal objectives in tension with IPRs, the institutions that have shaped the international intellectual property system, and the basic components contained in the relevant international treaties. The study aims to set forth regulatory options f or national governments to protect plant varieties while achieving other public policy objectives relating to plant genetic resources.

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