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Intellectual Property Law and Plant Protection: Challenges and Developments in Asia book cover

1st Edition

Intellectual Property Law and Plant Protection Challenges and Developments in Asia

Edited By Kamalesh Adhikari, David Jefferson Copyright 2020
230 Pages
by Routledge

230 Pages
by Routledge

230 Pages
by Routledge
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This book is the first to provide a detailed and critical account of the emergence, development, and implementation of plant variety protection laws in Asian countries. Each chapter undertakes a critical socio-legal analysis of one or more legal frameworks to understand, evaluate, and explore the concerns of diverse national stakeholders, the histories and dynamics of law-making, and the ways in... Read more

  1. 1 Intellectual property law for plant varieties: Challenges and developments in Asia

    KAMALESH ADHIKARI AND DAVID J. JEFFERSON

    2 Plant breeders’ rights proliferate in Asia: The spread of the UPOV Convention model

    DAVID J. JEFFERSON

    3 Essentially derived varieties: A workable compromise against free-riding breeders?

    CHARLES LAWSON

    4 Implementation of the plant variety protection laws of Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines: Trends and future prospects

    RAJESWARI KANNIAH

    5 Opportunities and challenges created by the Plant Variety Protection and Farmers’ Rights Act in India

    R. C. AGRAWAL

    6 Policy, politics, and implications of Pakistan’s Plant Breeders’ Rights Act

    MUHAMMAD AHSAN RANA AND KAMALESH ADHIKARI

    7 The National Seed Policy of Timor-Leste: Laying the foundation for the regulation of plant varieties as intellectual property

    PRATAP SHRESTHA

    8 A fresh look at the protection of ‘domestic’ and ‘wild’ plant varieties in Thailand

    PAWARIT LERTDHAMTEWE AND DAVID J. JEFFERSON

    9 From neglect to protection: Recognising the importance of farmers’ varieties in Sri Lanka

    ASANKA PERERA AND KAMALESH ADHIKARI

    10 What does it mean to protect farmers’ varieties as intellectual property?

    KAMALESH ADHIKARI

Biography

Kamalesh Adhikari is AIBE Research Fellow in Food Security and a Member of the Australian Research Council (ARC) Laureate Project Harnessing Intellectual Property to Build Food Security in the TC Beirne School of Law at the University of Queensland, Australia.

David J. Jefferson is a Research Fellow and Member of the Australian Research Council (ARC) Laureate Project Harnessing Intellectual Property to Build Food Security in the TC Beirne School of Law at the University of Queensland, Australia.

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