Exam Details

Subject Plant Variety Protection
Paper
Exam / Course MASTER OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW (MIPL)
Department School of Law (SOL)
Organization indira gandhi national open university
Position
Exam Date December, 2016
City, State new delhi,


Question Paper

1. The informal seed supply system:

Focuses on exchange, purchase, sharing and other 'interactions involving seeds among farmers communities.

Means that the seed produced is more suitable and adapted for the farming conditions of each geographical location.

Both and

None of the above

2. Plant tissue culture does not involve which of the following phase

Initiation phase

Multiplication phase

Root formation phase

Flowering phase

3. The can be transferred from one organism to another by transfer of DNA by adopting biotechnological methods.

Desirable genetic traits
Plant variety
Graon up seed of a plant
None of the above

4. In US Supreme Court held that "Living Organism" could be patented.

Diamond vs Chakrabarty

Arizona vs US

Marbury vs Madison

None of the above

5. The Agreement on Trade -Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, 1994 (TRIPS Agreement) permits its member states to use which of the following approach to protect its plant varieties

Patent law

An effective Sui generis system

Both patent law and an effective Sui generis system

Doha Ministrial Declaration

6. Separation of the seed from the seed head refers to:

Replanting the seed

Disarticulation

Pedigree selection

Polyploidy

7. To qualify as an "effective, Sui generis system" any national plant variety protection law must

be applicable to all plant varieties in all species and botanical genera.

grant plant breeders an intellectual property right.

provide 'national treatment' and 'most favoured nation' treatment to breeders from other W.T.O. members.

all of the above

8. situ' conservation pertains to

gene bank storage

growing of varieties in farmer's fields

on -farm conservation .

none of the above

9. a special form of IPRs created to provide protection and credit to the seed industry.

Farmers Rights

Plant Breeders Rights

Patents Rights

Protection of Traditional Knowledge


10. Which of the following Conventions provides for sovereign right of countries to exploit their own resources pursuant to their own environmental policies?

Convention on Biological Diversity.

International Convention for the Protection of new varieties of Plants.

United Nations Convention on Environment.

None of the above

11. Discuss the plant variety protection as available under TRIPS Agreement.

12. Discuss the importance of Informal seed supply system in India.

13. Explain in brief the salient features of Protection of Plant Variety and Farmer's Rights Act, 2001.

14. What do you mean by the term 'biosafety regulations' Discuss the biosafety regulations as applicable in India.

15. Discuss the impact of plant variety protection on Indian economy.


Departments

  • Centre for Corporate Education, Training & Consultancy (CCETC)
  • Centre for Corporate Education, Training & Consultancy (CCETC)
  • National Centre for Disability Studies (NCDS)
  • School of Agriculture (SOA)
  • School of Computer and Information Sciences (SOCIS)
  • School of Continuing Education (SOCE)
  • School of Education (SOE)
  • School of Engineering & Technology (SOET)
  • School of Extension and Development Studies (SOEDS)
  • School of Foreign Languages (SOFL)
  • School of Gender Development Studies(SOGDS)
  • School of Health Science (SOHS)
  • School of Humanities (SOH)
  • School of Interdisciplinary and Trans-Disciplinary Studies (SOITDS)
  • School of Journalism and New Media Studies (SOJNMS)
  • School of Law (SOL)
  • School of Management Studies (SOMS)
  • School of Performing Arts and Visual Arts (SOPVA)
  • School of Performing Arts and Visual Arts(SOPVA)
  • School of Sciences (SOS)
  • School of Social Sciences (SOSS)
  • School of Social Work (SOSW)
  • School of Tourism & Hospitality Service Sectoral SOMS (SOTHSM)
  • School of Tourism &Hospitality Service Sectoral SOMS (SOTHSSM)
  • School of Translation Studies and Training (SOTST)
  • School of Vocational Education and Training (SOVET)
  • Staff Training & Research in Distance Education (STRIDE)

Subjects

  • Advanced IP Issues
  • Commercialization Of Ip And Licensing
  • Copyright And Designs Law
  • International And Comparative Ip Law
  • Introduction To Law
  • IP Litigation
  • Overview Of Intellectual Property Rights
  • Patents
  • Plant Variety Protection
  • Trademark, Passing Off Andgeographical Indication And Domain Names
  • Traditional Knowledge And Biodiversity