Plants, People and Practices: The Nature and History of the UPOV Convention: 37 (Cambridge Intellectual Property and Information Law, Series Number 37)
Cambridge University Press, 12/6/2018
EAN 9781107565548, ISBN10: 1107565545
Paperback, 358 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.1 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English
The International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV) and the UPOV Convention are increasingly relevant and important. They have technical, social and normative legitimacy and have standardised numerous concepts and practices related to plant varieties and plant breeding. In this book, Jay Sanderson provides the first sustained and detailed account of the Convention. Building upon the idea that it has an open-ended and contingent relationship with scientific, legal, technical, political, social and institutional actors, the author explores the Convention's history, concepts and practices. Part I examines the emergence of the UPOV Convention during the 1950s and its expanding legitimacy in relation to plant variety protection. Part II explores the Convention's key concepts and practices, including plant breeder, plant variety, plant names (denomination), characteristics, protected material, essentially derived varieties (EDV) and farm saved seed (FSS). This book is an invaluable resource for academics, policy makers, agricultural managers and researchers in this field.
1. Introduction
2. The emergence of the UPOV Convention
a new context of plant breeding and dissatisfaction with existing forms of protection
3. UPOV's legitimacy
from members and trade to objectives, structure and norms
4. Recognising plant breeders, protecting discoveries
5. The proliferation, politicisation and legalisation of plant varieties
6. Bringing order and stability to variety denomination
7. Science isn't enough
genotypes, phenotypes and the utilitarian nature of plant variety rights schemes
8. Expanding protected material
embedding legal language and practices in the UPOV Convention
9. Examining and identifying essentially derived varieties
the place of science, law and cooperation
10. Saving and exchanging seeds
licenses, levies and speculation
11. The nature of UPOV and the UPOV Convention.