IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/spr/perchp/978-981-99-8897-6_4.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Sui Generis Intellectual Property Protection for Plant Varieties

In: Sui Generis Intellectual Property Protection

Author

Listed:
  • Iana Kazeeva

    (University of Vienna)

Abstract

Plant breeding has traditionally been regarded highly valuable due to its importance for public food and nutrition policies. For this reason, plant breeders enjoy a number of incentives, including public investments, tax benefits, and special intellectual property rights. Since patent and trade secret forms of protection remain questionable in regard to plant varieties, the creation of a sui generis system for the legal protection of plant breeding material is strongly encouraged at both national and international levels. This chapter compares the approaches to patentability of plant varieties in the EU and U.S. and looks into the special legal regimes introduced on both sides of the Atlantic, namely the EU system of Community plant variety rights and the U.S. Plant Patent Act and Plant Variety Protection Act. The chapter further aims to answer the question why the EU Community plant variety rights have turned out to be more effective for the protection of plant breeding material than the specific legal regimes enacted in the U.S., where utility patents still remain the most often-used form of protection for plant varieties.

Suggested Citation

  • Iana Kazeeva, 2024. "Sui Generis Intellectual Property Protection for Plant Varieties," Perspectives in Law, Business and Innovation, in: Sui Generis Intellectual Property Protection, chapter 0, pages 49-63, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:perchp:978-981-99-8897-6_4
    DOI: 10.1007/978-981-99-8897-6_4
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:perchp:978-981-99-8897-6_4. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.