This issue shows the complexity of intellectual property on plants and the take over of the agrochemical industry on vital biological processes, raising ethical, economic and philosophical concerns.
Over the last two decades, biotechnology has disrupted intellectual property issues, particularly in the field of seeds. The major agrochemical companies dominate the so-called abiotic ...
Patents and Plant Variety Certificates (PBRs) are two intellectual property regimes that can be applied to the same plants. While a patent may relate to genetic information or biological material in a ...
Twenty-five years after the first convictions for GMO patent infringement, the threat of legal action by the agrochemical industry is hanging over farmers, plant ...