Author : W. Jaffer
Release : 1995
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Book Synopsis The Impact of Plant Breeders' Rights in Developing Countries by : W. Jaffer
Download or read book The Impact of Plant Breeders' Rights in Developing Countries written by W. Jaffer. This book was released on 1995. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since the mid-1980s, the main industrialized countries have initiated international negotiations to encourage or to force the rest of the world to reduce unauthorized diffusion of medicines, computer software, video tapes, designs, and other innovations or cultural expressions. The background for this search for stronger protection was the losses that innovators in the USA, Europe and Japan said they incurred because of piracy in developing coutries. The risk of having ther intellectual property pirated elsewhere would deter companiesfrom exporting their products, and so it was concluded that the absence of strong intellectual property protection acts as an affective trade barrier. This relation with trade enabled the inclusion of intellectual property rights into the Uruguay Round of multilateral negotiations under the aegis of GATT.