A wide range of crop genetic resources is vital for future food security. Loss of agricultural
biodiversity increases the risk of relying on a limited number of staple food crops. However …

Open Variety Rights refer to the removal of the conditions attached to the usage of plants in
agriculture, and to an analogy with open licensing in informatics that is notably different from …

'This book is an excellent choice for academic libraries collecting in international law.
International development and globalization are hot topics that will become ever more …

This book addresses the unprecedented convergence between the digital and the corporeal
in the life sciences and turns to Foucault's biopolitics in order to understand how life is being …

The introduction of open source in the life sciences is increasingly being suggested as an
alternative to patenting. This is an alternative, however, that takes its shape at the …

Historical concerns over the exploitation of the Global South's genetic biodiversity framed
the importance of creating global governance mechanisms to ensure fair access to and …

Abstract The Bermuda Principles (1996) have been celebrated as a landmark for data
sharing and open science. However, the form that data sharing took in genomics was a …

The International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA)
establishes a multilateral system of access and benefit sharing (multilateral system), which …

A number of proposals and movements aiming at alleviating the negative effects of
intellectual property regimes have gained popularity during the last decade and a half. The …

This essay investigates the development of peculiar models in patents:“Open patent”
licenses, patent pledges, defensive patent strategies and the like. Although using patents in …