The right to food and the TRIPS agreement : with a particular emphasis on developing countries' measures for food production and distribution / by Hans Morten Haugen.
The right to food and the TRIPS agreement : with a particular emphasis on developing countries' measures for food production and distribution / by Hans Morten Haugen.
9789004161849 9004161848 alk. paper 9789047422150 electronic book 9047422155 electronic book
Alternate Call Number
G 26 HAU.R
Summary
"A concise analysis of the relationship between patent rights and human rights is given in this book, focusing on the right to food."--Jacket.
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [455]-502) and index. Based on the author's thesis (Doctoral)--University of Oslo, 2006.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 455-502) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
1. Introduction; 2. Food, biotechnology and intellectual property; 3. Methodology: principles and sources under international law; 4. Specifying the nature of the obligations and the approach for understanding economic, social and cultural human rights; 5. The right to food as recognized in the international covenant on economic, social and cultural rights; 6. The right to benefit from the moral and material interests of scientific production and the right to enjoy benefits from scientific progress and its applications; 7. The justifiable limitations to the recognized rights; 8. The TRIPS agreement, particulary patent protection; 9. Effective Sui generis systems for the protection of new varieties of plants; 10. Jurisdictional and jurisprudential issues under the international covenant on economic, social and cultural rights and the TRIPS agreement; 11. Principles for identifying and solving conflicts between treaties, as well as identifying the nature of treaties, applied to TRIPS and the covenant; 12. Conflict or compatibility between human rights and patent and plant variety protection?