Regime Tension in the Intellectual Property Rights Arena: Farmers' Rights and Post-TRIPS Counter Regime Trends
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Recognizing the transitions that have occurred in the global intellectual property arena since the TRIPS Agreement, this article identifies and examines key sites of the counter regime trends in intellectual property rights with a focus on farmers’ rights. It invokes farmers’ rights to highlight the conceptual and juridical hurdles facing the new issue-linkages that propel attempts to redress the shortcomings of the TRIPS’ trade-centered approach to intellectual property. The author argues that the existing juridical framework for farmers’ rights, especially under the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA), although inchoate, is stymied and not competent to realize the expectations underlying those rights. The notion of farmers’ rights would be better promoted under the canopy of the more unifying framework of other post-TRIPS counter-regime trends, especially the protection of the bio-cultural knowledge of indigenous and local communities, pursuant to the framework Convention on Biological Diversity. Reconnaissant les changements qui se sont produits sur la scene mondiale en matiere de propriete intellectuelle depuis la signature de l'Accord sue les aspects des droits de propriete intellectuelle qui touchent au commerce (Accord sur les ADPIC), l'article definit et examine des points cles des tendances contradictoires relativement aux droits de propriete intellectuelle, s'arretant particulierement aux droits des agriculteurs. Il parle des droits des agriculteurs pour illustrer les questions conceptuelles et juridiques qu'il faut resoudre pour combler les lacunes de l'approche de la propriete intellectuelle preconisee par l'Accord sur les ADPIC, soit une approche axee sur le commerce. L'auteur allegue que le cadre juridique actuel des droits des agriculteurs, en particulier sous le regime u Traite international sur les ressources phytogenetiques pour l'alimentation et l'agriculture, meme si le cadre est imparfait, est contrecarre et ne permet pas de realiser les attentes soulevees par ces droits. La notion de droits des agriculteurs serait mieux defendue a l'interieur du cadre plus unificateur d'autres tendances qui ont emerge a la suite de la conclusion de l'Accord, en particulier la protection des connaissances traditionnelles des collectivites autochtones et locales dans les domaines de la biologie et de la culture, dans le cadre Convention sur la diversite biologique. (Cet article est seulement disponible en anglais.)
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".