Agricultural biotechnology and intellectual property- Seeds of change.pdf

文档介绍：AGRICULTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGY AND
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Seeds of Change
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AGRICULTURAL
BIOTECHNOLOGY AND
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Seeds of Change
Edited by
Jay P. Kesan
College of Law, Program in Intellectual Property and
Technology Law, University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA
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Contents
Contributors ix
Preface xiii
Acknowledgements xv
Seeds of Change: A Link among the Legal, Economic and xvii
Agricultural munities
. Kesan
I Introduction
1 Agricultural Innovation after the Diffusion of 1
Intellectual Property Protection
B. Wright
2 Seed Biotechnology, Intellectual Property and Global 19
petitiveness
. Goldsmith, . Nauriyal and W. Peng
II Law
3 History and Trends in Agricultural Biotechnology 38
Patent Law from a Litigator’s Perspective
. Sease
4 Rules versus Standards for Patent Law in the Plan