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Book: Keith Aoki. Seed Wars.
URL = http://www.cap-press.com/books/1431
Description
David Bollier:
Aoki explains how the reckless growth of patent rights in plant genetic resources has created an “anti-commons” in which property rights are highly diffused and fragmented.
This means that farmers or companies trying to develop new seed varieties are stymied by the problem of clearing or paying for rights. The seed for the high-yield, pest-resistant Golden Rice, for example, required clearing the rights to 70 different intellectual property rights owned by 32 different parties. Given these anti-commons, seed companies would rather litigate than innovate." (http://onthecommons.org/node/1238)