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Farmer's Rights under Intellectual Property Law (Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmer's Rights Law, and Biological Diversity Law)
Author
Digvijay Singh
Specifications
  • ISBN 13 : 9789387839021
  • year : 2018
  • language : English
  • binding : Hardbound
Description
The present book titled 'Farmer's Rights under Intellectual Property Law (Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmer's Rights Law, and Biological Diversity Law)' primarily focuses on protection of farmer's rights under existing national and international legal frameworks. The basic premise of the book is that the status of farmers as breeder and conserver of traditional knowledge will enhance only if intellectual property rights of farmers is recognized. Further, the book is also premised on an assumption that no amount of institutional framework shall be efficacious unless the community ownership rights is also recognized along with individual rights within the intellectual property rights regime. The book argues that the idea of farmers' rights protection is not just a simple question of recognizing the rights of farming community. It is a mixed question of economics, ethics, culture, technology and law. The book also devotes itself to the study of among other things the scope and content of the sui generis law and more importantly to the parameters of efficacy of the possible sui generis law. The book is divided in eight chapters. The first two chapters draw attention towards certain fundamental theoretical issues related to farmer's rights and trace the evolution and growth of the concept of protection of farmer's right under international and national instruments. Thereafter following themes have been discussed in remaining chapters: international perspective on IP farmer's rights; national perspective on farmer's rights protection; various aspects of farmer's rights; intellectual property rights of farmers in India; and efficacy and challenges of Indian sui generis system for protection of farmers' rights. The book extensively covers provisions of the Plant Variety Protection and Farmers Rights Act, 2001 and the Biological Diversity Act, 2002 which have bearing on the subject of farmer's rights. The book is useful for Under Graduate/Post Graduate Students, Researchers in the field of plant variety protection and farmer's rights and bio-diversity conservation and Academia. The present book is based upon my thesis entitled