Patents in the Food Sector : A Retrospective with Special Emphasis on the TRIPs Agreement
by Willnegger, EvaFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2008-10-30
Publisher(s): Intl Specialized Book Service Inc
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Summary
"Interestingly enough, food, being central to every human being, has been excluded from patentability in many patent laws. The Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs) now forces all Members of the World Trade Organization to abolish the exemption. For this reason, this study looks at the Patent Acts of Germany, Brazil, China, and India in a comparative law approach with respect to the exemption to patentability of food-related inventions and the effects of its abolition. Secondly, it describes the food sector of today and particularly its technological developments. Finally, the intellectual property situation of the food sector is analyzed."--BOOK JACKET.
Table of Contents
| Abbreviations | p. 13 |
| Index of Tables | p. 15 |
| German Index of Tables | p. 16 |
| Introduction | p. 17 |
| Patentability of food from 1877 to 2005 in Germany compared to Brazil, China, and India | p. 19 |
| Innovation in today's food sector | p. 91 |
| Intellectual property situation of today's food sector | p. 115 |
| Final Summary | p. 166 |
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