Implications of Genetically Modified Crops and Intellectual Property Rights on Agriculture in Developing Countries

2017 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
pp. 253-271
Author(s):  
Olaitan Oluwaseyi Olusegun ◽  
Ifeoluwa Ayokunle Olubiyi
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Genetically Modified ◽  
Genetically Modified Crops ◽  
The Body ◽  
Environmental Concerns ◽  
Security Issues ◽  
Plant Variety ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Right

AbstractFood is essential for human survival. When the right quantity and quality is taken, it ensures growth and an adequate supply of nutrition to the body, which results in basic effectiveness in all spheres of life. Genetically modified crops have the potential to alleviate hunger and provide more food, especially in developing countries that have high levels of hunger, malnutrition and poverty. Although the debates on genetically modified crops generally focus on intellectual property, other issues include health and environmental concerns. This article examines these issues with the aim of providing holistic knowledge of the subject matter, which is important for stakeholders, particularly in developing countries, in deciding to protect plant variety rights. The article concludes that it is essential for developing countries to consider food security issues in fulfilling their obligations under the TRIPS Agreement.

GM Crops

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Thomson
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Organic Farming ◽  
Genetically Modified ◽  
Genetically Modified Crops ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Gm Crops ◽  
Environmental Concerns ◽  
Negative Effects

Genetically modified crops – are they monsters of nature or could they provide answers to some of our most pressing environmental concerns? Will they create superweeds, run amock and change life as we know it, or are these fears greatly exaggerated? Internationally respected microbiologist Jennifer Thomson takes us through the issues and concerns surrounding the development of genetically modified crops and their impacts on the environment. She explains how such crops are developed and assessed and discusses the likelihood of negative effects on biodiversity, pollen spread, and organic farming. GM crops may have tremendous potential for addressing some of the world’s environmental problems and protecting the planet, particularly in developing countries – in fact we could face more harm if some of these technologies are not adopted.

12 The Intellectual Property–Competition Interface

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cheng Thomas K
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Competition Law ◽  
Process Innovation ◽  
Patent Law ◽  
Patent System ◽  
Competition Rules ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The One ◽  
Competition Interface

This chapter focuses on the interface between intellectual property and competition laws. The interface is the most complex between competition law on the one hand and patent law on the other hand. Developing countries only engage in what can be called laggard innovation, which includes acquisition of tacit knowledge, imitation, and process innovation. This may call for a reconsideration of the appropriate approach to the patent–competition interface in developing countries because laggard innovations, with the exception of process innovation, are not the subject of protection of the patent system. If laggard innovations are not the subject matter of protection of the patent system, the patent-competition rules should have little relevance for the quest for innovations in developing countries. In fact, one can argue that the patent system is an impediment to one of the main sources of laggard innovation, imitation, and that the patent-competition rules should be adjusted in a way to facilitate it if one were serious about adopting a pro-growth approach to competition law enforcement in developing countries. This implies that for developing countries that do not produce patentable innovations, there is no need to balance between patent and competition policies. There is in fact no conflict between these two policy objectives. Intellectual property rights and Market-sharing and customer allocation Enforcement and procedure

Specific Notarial Protection of the Testator's Exclusive Rights: Kazakh and International Experience

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 770
Author(s):  
Karlygash Asilkhanovna JUMABAYEVA ◽  
Lola Furkatovna TATARINOVA ◽  
Gulnaz Tursunovna ALAYEVA ◽  
Saule Zhusupbekovna SULEIMENOVA ◽  
Danila Vladimirovich TATARINOV
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Property Rights ◽  
Intellectual Property Rights ◽  
International Experience ◽  
Copyright Holder ◽  
Main Function ◽  
Legal Practice ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Right

This study is concerned with one of the most burning issues of intellectual property rights, namely the notarial protection of the testator's exclusive rights. The article analyzes the Kazakh and international experience in solving this issue. In the course of the study, the authors obtained the following results: - In legal practice, the non-acceptance of inheritance and refusal to inherit exclusive rights have their specific features; - It is proposed to supplement the existing civil legislation on the protection of the testator's copyrights. ‘Kazakhstan Authors' Society’ conducts its activities in the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Its main function is to manage the property rights of authors. This management includes the issuance of permits to use deliverables on behalf of authors, as well as the collection, distribution and payment of royalties. It has been established that a notary has the right to apply to ‘Kazakhstan Authors' Society’ to determine one's authorship. The authors have revealed that the current Kazakh legislation does not state the creation time of some deliverable and does not provide for the notarial certification of a web page (in case of copyright infringement). Thus, a notary takes measures to protect the intellectual property rights owned by the copyright holder that might become the subject of succession.

scholarly journals About some questions of dissolution of legislative bodies of subjects of the Russian Federation

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (2) ◽  
pp. 106-113
Author(s):  
Людмила Тхабисимова ◽  
Ludmila Thabisimova ◽  
Эльман Ахъядов ◽  
Elman Akhyadov
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Constitutional Law ◽  
State Power ◽  
The Body ◽  
Early Termination ◽  
Legal Responsibility ◽  
Legislative Body ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
The Right

The article examines the issues of dissolution of the legislative body of the subject of the Federation. Attention is drawn to the fact that the institution of dissolution is an institution of constitutional law, and when the legislative body is dissolved, it is not responsible to the body or official who decided to dissolve it, but to the population, its voters. On the basis of the study it is concluded that it is necessary to Supplement the list of grounds for early termination of the powers of the regional Parliament, as a measure of constitutional and legal responsibility, by including such grounds as the loss of voter confidence. The question of the need to empower the population of the subject of the Russian Federation with the right to decide in a referendum on the dissolution of the legislative (representative) body of state power of the subject of the Russian Federation.

scholarly journals Ghostwriters as a Legal Phenomenon: Features and Perspectives of Legal Regulation of Their Activity

Lex Russica ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 19-27
Author(s):  
N. V. Zaitseva
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Civil Law ◽  
Fundamental Property ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Administrative Law ◽  
Scientific Field ◽  
Property Right ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Right

The paper is devoted to the problem of using the work of another person in the intellectual field, primarily in literary activity. The involvement of ghostwriters in writing literary works has created a legal phenomenon when the subject matter of contractual relations represents the inalienable non-property right, namely: the right of authorship the transfer of which is not possible in many jurisdictions, and in others, despite the absence of an explicit prohibition, there is no legal regulation of such alienation. However, the existence of ghostwriters cannot be assessed as a unique phenomenon of modernity. In our time, they have only gained new forms and a special place not only in the literary, but also in the scientific field. In this regard, the establishment of legal mechanisms for attracting and regulating ghostwriters is more effective than the establishment of a system of prohibitions.In the conditions of changing publishing businesses and increasing ways and forms of proof, questions about the authenticity of a person's authorship began to arise increasingly, especially in the field of scientific and scholarly literature, where the work of "new" researchers is often used. The issue of assignment of the right of authorship (copyright) — a fundamental property right — is treated differently in different legal systems. The continental system of law relies on impossibility of transferring copyright from one entity to another as part of a civil law transaction. Therefore, instances of attribution of authorship are assessed in the context of criminal or administrative law. It forms the legal essence of the division of rights of authorship into property and nonproperty ones: any commercial rights to intellectual property can be ceded except the authorship.

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