Plant breeders’ rights (PBRs) are a form of intellectual property (IP) protection that provide plant breeders protection to newly developed crop, fruit, and vegetable varieties. …
By: Stuart Smyth, Peter W. B. Phillips & Diego Macall Context Big data, structured and unstructured, is generated from diverse sources, in volumes too large …
Is the 35-year-old Patent Act getting the job done? The 150th anniversary of Canada’s intellectual property (IP) protection passed unnoticed in 2019. Over its history, …
The challenging dilemma between genomic sequencing and traditional knowledge Historically, to develop a new plant variety, there needed to be two distinct varieties to be …
This blog is based on the ‘Governance of Digital Sequence Information and Impacts for Access and Benefit Sharing’ technical report which you can find here. …
New Research Collection on Innovations in Agriculture and Food Genetically modified (GM) crops were first commercially available 18 years ago. Over this time, the technology …
