Karine Peschard is Associate Research Fellow at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, and Associate Researcher at the Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies.

List of Acronyms and Abbreviations xi
List of Figures xv
Series Foreword xvii
Acknowledgments xix
Introduction 1
1 Brazil, India, and Intellectual Property in Agriculture 21
2 Challenging Royalties on Roundup Ready Soybean 37
3 BT Cotton: The Patent that Never Was 57
4 Who Owns BT Brinjal? 77
5 Patent Politics and Legal Activism 93
Conclusion 113
Appendix A Timeline of the Court Cases 121
Appendix B Log of Interviews 123
Appendix C BT Brinjal and the International Regime Governing Plant Genetic Resources 129
Appendix D Udupi Mattu Gulla: A Case Study 133
Notes 137
References 149
Index 173