What’s in a Name?
An Overview of Generic Pesticides Product familiarity helps speed up decision-making. No one wants to do extensive research on all market options, so having a …
Intellectual property
Have Changes to Canada’s Plant Breeders’ Rights Act Affected Investment Incentives for Canadian Plant Breeders?
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. …
Governance of Agricultural and Genomic Data
By: Stuart Smyth, Peter W. B. Phillips & Diego Macall Context Big data, structured and unstructured, is generated from diverse sources, in volumes too large …
Are Canada’s Intellectual Property Laws Facilitating Innovation?
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, …
Genome Editing: Is Data Knowledge?
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 …
Understanding the Implications of Plant Digital Sequence Information
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. …
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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 …