Biotechnology IPRs & Biodiversity

Description This book discusses the background of the signing of the Convention on Biodiversity, examines the various articles of CBD, and provides a detailed analysis on the Cartagena Protocol on Biodiversity while also dealing with the various meetings, discussions and treaties on the subject. Leading to a better understanding on this complex and complicated issue, especially from a developing country's point of view, this volume will serve, equally, students and scholars of international business, law, strategic management as well as lawyers, policy analysts and NGOs The positive and negative aspects of biotechnological advances The laws in several countries which regulate these advances to prevent their harmful effects The demand for patent laws by the private industry, arising from the advances in medicine, public health and agriculture Efforts by the FAO towards the conservation of indigenous-plant genetic resources The need to preserve biodiversity Existing agreements on the conservation of flora and fauna and the protection of habitats and ecosystems Biotechnology Biotechnology Laws and Practices in some Countries Biotechnology and Patent Laws Biotechnology and TRIPS Agreement: Different Approaches in TRIPS and CBD Biodiversity and the Need to Preserve It Earlier Agreements for the Conservation of Biodiversity Background to the Signing of the Convention on Biodiversity Convention on Biodiversity The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture: Further Developments M. B. Rao is a senior consultant on tax matters, company affairs and arbitration. He received his masters degree in law from the University of London and was a doctoral scholar at The Hague Academy of International Law. He began his career as an advocate at the Madras High Court in 1951 and was appointed as a solicitor to the government of India in 1961. In 1966, he became Deputy Legal Advisor, Ministry of Law, and held various senior