Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Seeds of Change: A Link among the Legal, Economic and Agricultural Biotechnology Communities -- I: Introduction -- 1 Agricultural Innovation after the Diffusion of Intellectual Property Protection -- 2 Seed Biotechnology, Intellectual Property and Global Agricultural Competitiveness -- II: Law -- 3 History and Trends in Agricultural Biotechnology Patent Law from a Litigator's Perspective -- 4 Rules versus Standards for Patent Law in the Plant Sciences -- 5 Constitutional Implications of State Seed-saving Statutes -- 6 Patented Inventions and Externalities: Hohfeldian Legal Relationships as They Apply to Pollen Drift and Other Inadvertent Use -- III: Technology -- 7 Legal Constraint of Genetic Use Restriction Technologies -- 8 Cereal Offenders: Access and Equity in Trade Negotiations on Knowledge Resources -- 9 Public Provision of Knowledge for Policy Research: The Agricultural Biotechnology Intellectual Property Database -- 10 Network Analysis for Interpreting Patent Data: A Preliminary, Visual Approach -- IV: Business -- 11 The Impact of Intellectual Property Rights in the Plant and Seed Industry -- 12 Dynamic Pricing Mechanism to Achieve Pareto Optimality in a Seed Production Contract -- 13 The Economic Incentive to Innovate in Plants: Patents and Plant Breeders' Rights -- 14 The Strength and Structure of Intellectual Bio-property Markets -- V: Comparative Studies -- 15 Insecure Property Rights and Plant Varieties: The Effects on the Market for Seeds and on Farmers in Argentina -- 16 The Regulatory Regime and its Impact on Innovation Activities in Agro-food Biotechnology in the EU and USA -- 17 The Political Economy of Intellectual Property: Re-examining European Policy on Plant Biotechnology.

18 Reality and Problems of Plant Protection under Patent Law and Seed and Seedlings Law in Japan -- 19 Plant Variety Protection in the Republic of Korea -- 20 Economic Impact Assessment of Intellectual Property Rights Regulation: The Case of Egypt -- VI: International Regulation -- 21 Social and Economic Consequences of Genetic Use Restriction Technologies in Developing Countries -- 22 Agricultural Biotechnology under TRIPS and Beyond: Addressing Social Policies in a Pro-patent Environment -- 23 To Sow or Not to Sow: Dilemmas in Creating New Rights in Food -- 24 Biodiversity and Biotechnology: A Misunderstood Relationship -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W -- Z.