Flexibility in the implementation of intellectual property rights in agricultural biotechnology

Michel Trommetter

Working Papers from Grenoble Applied Economics Laboratory (GAEL)

Abstract: In this paper I discuss the fact that economists define optimal IP rights as a continuum of options in three dimensions: height, breadth and length. At the operational level we see the impossibility of multiplying rights indefinitely (due to prohibitive transaction costs), as well as the use of a limited number of IP tools which have led to the implementation of flexibilities. These flexibilities are designed to limit certain perverse effects of rights ill-adjusted to the characteristics of some economic sectors (agricultural biotechnologies, pharmacy, etc.). In this context, I analyse how these flexibilities are implemented in TRIPS and TRIPS+ agreements and I study the consequences for Developing Countries.

Keywords: TRIPS; INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS; PATENT; AGRICULTURE; INNOVATION (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: K11 L65 O31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-agr, nep-env, nep-ino, nep-ipr, nep-pr~ and nep-law
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