An Empirical Study of Access and Benefit-Sharing Regimes and Plant Variety Protection Regarding Plant Genetic Resources among Developed Countries

摘要: Plant genetic resources (PGRs) and traditional knowledge regarding the use of PGRs have been subjects international agreements that attempted to develop guidelines for collecting sharing their benefits. Developed countries prefer intellectual property regimes favor interests deem collection PGR samples from developing ”bioprospecting.” However, developed countries’ perspectives examined more in law literature than by empirical method. The discussions make it hard understand objectively whether or not these are right determine interactions between rights (IPRs) access benefit-sharing (ABS) regimes. An research study is a significant way fill such gap, so this article uses regression analysis evaluate development IPRs adoption among countries. shows experience increased numbers plant variety protection (PVP) application filings tend adopt ABS As result, harmony with regimes, cause-and-effect relationship.