Intellectual property rights in plant varieties
Subtitle: international legal regimes and policy options for national governments /Laurence R. Helfer.
Contributors: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
Series: FAO legislative study -- 85
Publisher: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Rome
Language: eng
Number of pages: 104
Subjects: Plant varieties -- Patents.; Patents (International law); Intellectual property (International law)
Genres: Patents.
Description: The study provides an overview 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 for national governments to protect plant varieties while achieving other public policy objectives relating to plant genetic resources.
Notes: "For the Development Law Service FAO Legal Office."

Bibliography: p. [95]-104.