Assessing the Implications of Intellectual Property Rights on Plant and Animal Agriculture

American Journal of Agricultural Economics

Volumn 79, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1584-1591

  Lesser, W ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000062347     PISSN: 00029092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1244385     Document Type: Article

References (36)

1. Barton, J.H. "The Impact of Contemporary Patent Law on Plant Biotechnology Research." Paper presented at the Intellectual Property Rights III Global Genetic Resources: Access and Property Rights Workshop, Washington DC, 4-6 June 1997.
2. Butler, L.J., and B.W. Marion. "The Impacts of Patent Protection on the U.S. Seed Industry and Public Plant Breeding." University of Wisconsin, N.C. 117, Monograph 16, 1985.
3. Deolalikar, A.B., and R.E. Evenson. "Private Inventive Activity in Indian Manufacturing: Its Extent and Determinants." Science and Technology: Lessons for Development Policy. R.E. Evenson and G. Rains, eds., chap. 10. Boulder CO: Westview Press, 1990.
4. Evenson, R.E. "Technological Opportunities and International Technology Transfer in Agriculture." The Agro-Technological System Towards 2000. G. Antonelli and A. Quadrio-Curzio, eds., chap. 7. New York: Elsevier Science Publishers, 1988.
5. Foster, W.E., and R. Perrin. "Economic Incentives and Plant Breeding Research." Dept. Agr. and Res. Econ., DARE: 91-05, North Carolina State University, May 1991.
6. Hansen, L., and M. Knudson. "Property Rights Protection of Reproducible Genetic Material." Rev. Agr. Econ. 18(September 1996):403-14.
7. Jaffè, W., and J. van Wijk. The Impact of Plant Breeders' Rights in Developing Countries. Inter-Am Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture, University of Amsterdam, October 1995.
8. James, C., and A.F. Krattiger. Global Review of the Field Testing and Commercialization of Transgenic Plants: 1986 to 1995. Ithaca NY: International Service for the Acquisition of Agro-biotech Applications (ISAAA), 1996.
9. Kamien, M.I., and N.L. Schwartz. Market Structure and Innovation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982.
10. Kloppenburg, J.R., Jr. First the Seed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
11. Knudson, M., and L. Hansen. Intellectual Property Rights and the Private Seed Industry. Washington DC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, ERS Agr. Econ. Rep. No. 654, November 1991.
12. Knudson, M.K., and C.E. Pray. "Plant Variety Protection, Private Research, and Public Sector Research Priorities." Amer. J. Agr. Econ. 73 (August 1991):882-86.
13. Lesser, W. "Anticipating UK Plant Variety Patents." Europ. Intellectual Property Rev. 9(June 1987a):172-77.
14. _. "The Impacts of Seed Patents." N. C. J. Agr. Econ. 9(January 1987b):37-48.
15. _. Sustainable Use of Genetic Resources under the Convention on Biological Diversity: Exploring Access and Benefit Sharing Issues. London: CAB International, December 1997.
16. _. "Valuation of Plant Variety Protection Certificates." Rev. Agr. Econ. 16(May 1994): 231-38.
17. Loyns, R.M.A., and A.J. Begleiter. "An Examination of the Potential Economic Effects of Plant Breeders' Rights on Canada." Working paper, Consumer and Corporate Affairs Canada, Ottawa ON, no date.
18. Merges, R.P., and R.R. Nelson. "On the Complex Economics of Patent Scope." Columbia Law Rev. 90(May 1990):839-916.
19. National Agricultural Biotechnology Council. Ag Biotechnology in the News. No. 3. Ithaca NY, 1997. Newsletter.
20. Nordhaus, W.D. Invention, Growth and Welfare. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1969.
21. Penna, A.L. da Rocha. "An Analysis of the Impact of Plant Breeders' Rights Legislation on the Introduction of New Varieties in UK Horticulture." PhD dissertation, Wye College, University of London, 1994.
22. Perrin, R.K., K.A. Hunnings, and L.A. Ihnen. "Some Effects of the U.S. Plant Variety Protection Act of 1970." Econ. Res. Rep. No. 46, North Carolina State University, August 1983.
23. Primo Braga, C.A. "Guidance from Economic Theory" (discussion paper no. 112). Strengthening Protection of Intellectual Property in Developing Countries: A Survey of the Literature. W.E. Siebeck, ed., chap. 3. Washington DC: World Bank, December 1990.
24. _. "Trade-Related Intellectual Property Issues: The Uruguay Round Agreement and Its Economic Implications" (discussion paper no. 307). The Uruguay Round and the Developing Economies. W. Martin and L.A. Winters, eds., chap. 12. Washington DC: World Bank, 1995.
25. Rapp, R.T., and R.P. Rozek. Benefits and Costs of Intellectual Property Protection in Developing Countries. White Plains NY: National Economic Research Associates (NERA), 1990.
26. Roffe, P. "Abuses of Patent Monopoly: A Legal Appraisal." World Develop. 2(September 1974):15-26.
27. Roy, U., R.D. Tuch, and J.E. Clark. "Global Assessment of Patents, R & D Investments, and Economic Output, part 2. Cross-Country Comparisons at the Industry Sector Level." J. Patent and Trademark Office Society. 79(March 1997):157-80.
28. Schankerman, M. How Valuable Is Patent Protection? Estimates by Technology Field Using Patent Renewal Data. Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics, 1991.
29. Scherer, F.M. Industrial Market Structure and Economic Performance, 2nd ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1980.
30. _. Innovation and Growth. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1984.
31. Scherer, F.M., and D. Ross. Indicators of Market Structure and Economic Performance. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1990.
32. Stallmann, J.I. "Impacts of the 1930 Plant Patent Act on Private Fruit Breeding Investment." PhD dissertation, Michigan State University, 1986.
33. Stallmann, J.I., and A.A. Schmid. "Property Rights in Plants: Implications for Biotechnology Research and Extension." Amer. J. Agr. Econ. 69(May 1987):432-37.
34. Stern, R. "Intellectual Property." The Uruguay Round: A Handbook on the Multilateral Trade Negotiations. J.M. Finger and A. Olechowski, eds., pp. 198-206. Washington DC: World Bank, 1987.
35. Straus, J. "Biotechnology and Intellectual Property." Biotechnology, 2nd ed., vol. 12. J.-J. Rhmond and G. Reed, eds., chap. 9. Weinheim, Germany: VCH, 1995.
36. Tauer, L.W., and W.A. Knoblauch. "The Empirical Impact of Bovine Somatotropin on New York Dairy Farms." J. Dairy Sci., 80(June 1997): 1092-97.