This chapter provides an overview of intellectual property protection for seed and plant inventions in Japan. It is suggested that bioengineered plants, unlike plants bred by traditional breeding techniques, are well protected under the current patent system.

This chapter focuses on the economics of segregating US non-transgenic maize and soyabeans for shipments to Japan, the primary non-transgenic export market for US grains and oilseeds, as a case study. The chapter objectives include: to ascertain or estimate price premiums that buyers in both the US ...

This revised and updated book (the first edition was printed in 1998), presents information on intellectual property law in a simplified form. New chapters have been added, which cover plant variety protection and farmers' rights. The latter chapter provides a background to the impact of the...

This chapter focuses on (1) what motivated domestic government intervention, in the form of regulations, in agricultural biotechnology market transactions; (2) how domestic governments regulate market transactions; and (3) what the impact of domestic regulations on the development and...