The Intellectual Property–Regulatory Complex
Author | : Emily Marden |
Publisher | : UBC Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2016-03-06 |
ISBN-10 | : 0774831804 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780774831802 |
Rating | : 4/5 (802 Downloads) |
Download or read book The Intellectual Property–Regulatory Complex written by Emily Marden and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2016-03-06 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advances in agricultural genomics could help address pressing global issues such as world hunger. However, overlapping and inconsistent intellectual property and biosafety regimes – collectively referred to as the “Intellectual Property–Regulatory Complex” – create significant, and often conflicting, barriers to developing and commercializing new agricultural biotechnology. The authors of this collection explore how this Complex impacts innovation in ways that cannot be appreciated when individual regimes are examined in isolation. They then propose solutions that would meet the objectives of the current intellectual property and biosafety regimes while enabling innovation in the field of agricultural genomics.