Access to intellectual property is a major obstacle to developing transgenic horticultural crops
Inefficiencies in accessing intellectual property (IP) appear to be hindering otherwise valuable research and development (R&D) in horticultural crop varieties. While leading private-sector agricultural biotechnology firms with strong IP positions and commercial freedo...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources
2004-04-01
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| Series: | California Agriculture |
| Online Access: | http://calag.ucanr.edu/archive/?article=ca.v058n02p120 |
| Summary: | Inefficiencies in accessing intellectual property (IP) appear to be hindering otherwise
valuable research and development (R&D) in horticultural crop varieties. While leading
private-sector agricultural biotechnology firms with strong IP positions and commercial
freedom to operate (FTO) see insufficient incentives in the small, fractured markets
of horticultural products, researchers with public-sector support for horticultural
projects but weak IP positions may find that the best way of gaining FTO and moving
forward is to band together and provide mutual access to one another's technologies.
The Public Intellectual Property Resource for Agriculture (PIPRA), headquartered at
UC Davis, is a new coalition of U.S. universities and foundations committed to this
strategy. |
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| ISSN: | 0008-0845 2160-8091 |