 | David Gisselquist, Jitendra Srivastava - 1997 - 168 pages
...precise distinction among varieties is required. Plant breeders' rights were originally related to the International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV) convention that came into force in 1968. The recendy concluded GATT negotiations require member countries... | |
 | Kazuo N. Watanabe, Eija Pehu - 1997 - 247 pages
...are a specialized patent-like system for cultivated plants. PBR were first systematized in 1961 under the International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV in its French acronym). Presently there are 28 members. Membership requires, among other steps, that... | |
 | Michael L. Morris - 1998 - 422 pages
...for the protection of plant varieties through some combination of three basic strategies: (1) joining the International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV), (2) allowing plant variety patents, or (3) establishing a sui generis system of PVP. The first strategy... | |
 | Arie Altman - 1997 - 798 pages
...reasons. There may be better alternatives to patenting plants and animals. In 1961 the Convention on the International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV Convention) established international "plant variety rights," and by 1989 there were 19 member countries,... | |
 | Detlef Virchow - 1999 - 280 pages
...Technical Conference on Plant Genetic Resources, 1996. FAO, 1997a: Background Documentation provided by the International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV). Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. CGRFA-7/97/Inf.5. Rome. FAO, 1997b: Progress... | |
 | Kerry ten Kate, Sarah A. Laird - 1999 - 201 pages
...interpretation' of the Undertaking which states that Plant Breeders' Rights, as provided for under the International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV), are not incompatible with the Undertaking, and that a state may impose only such minimum restrictions... | |
 | David R. Downes - 1999 - 97 pages
...Kingdom: Records of a Symposium held on the occasion of the fourteenth ordinary session of the Council of the International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants. UPOV, Geneva. Nijar, Gurdial Singh. 1995. In Defence of Indigenous Knowledge and Biodiversity: A conceptual... | |
 | Sarita Bennett, P.S. Cocks - 1999 - 252 pages
...vulnerable world economy and the increasingly restrictive nature of Plant Breeder's Rights (PBR) with the International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV) agreement of 1991, in which the breeder's right was strengthened vis-a-vis the rights of farmers and... | |
 | A.D. Arencibia - 2000 - 283 pages
...appropriate schemes, PBR is established through national Seeds Acts, which enact the provisions of the International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV) Convention. UPOV is the driving force behind the development of techniques for DUS testing, the introduction... | |
 | Keith Eugene Maskus - 2000 - 296 pages
...examination authorities, membership in the PCT rose dramatically in the 1990s, to 103 countries. Finally, the International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV), sets out minimum standards for protecting the fruits of 1. The number actually undercounts true accessions,... | |
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