Intellectual property rights in agricultural biotechnology / edited by F.H. Erbisch and K.M. Maredia.

Wallingford, UK ; Cambridge, MA : CABI Pub., [2004], ©2004.

xviii, 308 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

2nd ed.

Introduction to intellectual properties / Brian L. Smiler and Frederic H. Erbisch -- Acquiring protection for improved germplasm and inbred lines / John H. Barton -- Transferring intellectual properties / Andrew J. Fischer and Frederic H. Erbisch -- Capacity building in intellectual property management in agricultural biotechnology / Karim M. Maredia and Frederic H. Erbisch -- Plant variety protection in the U.S.A. / Janice M. Strachan -- Farmers' rights over plant genetic resources in the South: challenges and opportunities / Kirit K. Patel -- Economic aspects of intellectual property rights in agricultural biotechnology / Mywish K. Maredia, James F. Oehmke and Derek Byerlee -- Egypt / Atef El-Azab -- South Africa / Rosemary A. Wolson -- Australia / Michael Blakeney -- China / Tan Loke-Khoon -- Issues on intellectual property rights associated with agrobiotechnology in Japan / Kazuo N. Watanabe and Atushi Komamine -- India / Prabuddha Ganguli -- Intellectual property rights in the Russian Federation / Terry A. Young and Dmitri Shulgin -- Andean Pact countries of Latin America / Walter R. Jaffé and Elinor Arteaga-Marcano -- Costa Rica / Silvia Salazar --European Union / R. Stephen Crespi -- Indonesia / Tantono Subagyo -- Exercising intellectual property rights management in Brazil: Research, technology, transfer and agribusiness after TRIPS / Maria José Amstalden Sampio, Margareth Maia de Rocha and Elza Angela B. Brito da Cunha.

Includes bibliographical references and index.