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Patent & Food Security – Opening the Pandora’s Box

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Title Patent & Food Security – Opening the Pandora’s Box
 
Creator Mitra, Saswata
 
Subject Food security
Patent
Sui generis
 
Description 145-151
The issue of food security which has gained prominence in the 1970’s has been a topic of debate since then. The theme behind an intellectual property protection is to help protect investments into research and development and stimulate innovation and in recent times patents have been taken on indigenous plants which have been used for generations by the local people, without their knowledge or consent potential. The developing nations have become a potential experimental launch pad of the developed countries. Thus, market of the developing countries is being targeted as safety is lenient and the countries which have a patent protection on plant variety pay a heavy price for these technologies. This paper addresses some of the unresolved issues pertaining to patent and food security, the existing legislation’s shortcomings and fallacies.
 
Date 2008-03-20T04:51:58Z
2008-03-20T04:51:58Z
2008-03
 
Type Article
 
Identifier 0971-5544
http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/428
 
Language en_US
 
Publisher CSIR
 
Source JIPR Vol.13(2) [March 2008]