Sentence examples for ipr tools from inspiring English sources
Existing IPR tools are often devised for larger companies and genuine IPR experts, and some tools are often considered by SME personnel to be difficult to handle and therefore are little used at the SME level.
This age-old innovation model is indeed not only set aside by the dominant appropriation and incentive mechanisms set out by IPR tools, but it is also pushed into illegality by those rules solely pertaining to the regulation of the "formal" seed market.
Until now, the main approach to allowing mass selection-based innovation to contribute to the sustainable use of biodiversity on farms has been to situate the "traditional practices of farmers as exceptions to the exclusive rights of plant breeders under existing IPR tools".
However, due to the privatization and increased intellectual property rights (IPRs) protection, many people in the developing world find it very difficult to access modern biotechnology research tools (e.g. genetic engineering, micro-propagation, mutation breeding etc).
Some argue that the modern system of IPR law is having the opposite effect delaying the diffusion of new technology.John Barton, a law professor at Stanford University, wants to see both rich and poor countries start thinking of IPR more as a development tool, and for them to reconsider the notion that strongly protecting the rights of inventors is automatically good for all.
This asserted the primacy of public health over IPR.
Many developing countries have introduced laws protecting IPR, but in practice protection is often weak.
