Intellectual Property Protection to Plant Varieties: Issues in Transgenic Cotton Cultivation
Published By: GIDR on eSS | Published Date: March, 28 , 2003As Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights have been extended to agriculture, member countries are forced to provide intellectual property protection to plant varieties. As a member country, India has also passed the Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers Rights Bill, 2001. A significant feature of this Bill is that protection is extended not only to new varieties but also to extant varieties, farmers’ varieties and essentially derived varieties. [GIDR WP No. 136].
Author(s): Lalitha N | Posted on: Aug 28, 2007 | Views(2464) | Download (905)