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Trade related intellectual property rights: Plant varieties and biodiversity, traditional knowledge and benefit-sharing

FACTSHEET FOR THE SIXTH WTO MINISTERIAL CONFERENCE, HONG KONG







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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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    Intellectual Property Rights in Plant Varieties: An Overview with Options for National Governments 2002
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    Intellectual property rights (IPRs) are legal rights granted by government al authorities to control certain products of human intellectual effort and ingenuity. (OECD 1996, at 12). An in- depth discussion of the philosophical and policy goals served by gran ting legal protection to these products is beyond the scope of this report. However, a basic familiarity with these goals is necessary to grasp how national and international intellectual property systems and institutions have evolv ed to their present forms and to understand the constraints that those systems and institutions place on governments seeking to implement competing policy objectives in tension with IPRs.

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