Intellectual Property Rights and Agro-Biotechnology: Limitations and Alternatives
<span style="color: black"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Intellectual property rights have led to stimulating innovation in different fields such as biotechnology. Patents, plant variety protection, industrial secrets and material transfe...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Spanish |
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Universidad Nacional de Colombia
2008-11-01
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| Series: | Revista Colombiana de Biotecnología |
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| Online Access: | http://www.revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/biotecnologia/article/view/708 |
| Summary: | <span style="color: black"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Intellectual property rights have led to stimulating innovation in different fields such as biotechnology. Patents, plant variety protection, industrial secrets and material transfer agreements are legal terms individually and/or collectively protecting materials or processes deemed necessary for agricultural-biotech product development. Such terms may often accumulate to such an extent that this hinders a product’s development and commercial release. Some current initiatives are aimed at facilitating access to basic technology for agricultural-biotech product development, including public organisation cooperation networks, requests for special licences for humanitarian programmes and open access projects. These may be good short-and medium-term alternatives for carrying out biotechnological research in countries like Colombia.</font></font></span> |
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| ISSN: | 0123-3475 1909-8758 |