Plants, People and Practices: The Nature and History of the Upov Convention

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.

Author: Jay Sanderson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 12/06/2018
Pages: 356
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.74d
ISBN: 9781107565548

About the Author
Sanderson, Jay: - Jay Sanderson is an Associate Professor in Law at the USC Law School, Australia, a member of the Australian Centre for Intellectual Property in Agriculture (ACIPA) and an adjunct with the Law Futures Centre, Griffith University Law School, Queensland. He has published widely on issues of intellectual property, plants and agri-food, and has been cited by Australia's Productivity Commission and Advisory Council on Intellectual Property. He is the co-editor of The Intellectual Property and Food Project: From Rewarding Innovation and Creation to Feeding the World (with Charles Lawson, 2013) and has contributed a chapter to Intellectual Property and Genetically Modified Organisms: A Convergence in Laws (edited by Charles Lawson and Berris Charnley, 2015).