Professor Janis is an authority on intellectual property rights in plant agriculture. He has studied extensively the application of utility patent protection to conventional and biotech plants, and plant variety protection regimes.

 

BOOK CHAPTERS

Rules v. Standards for Patent Law in the Plant Sciences, in Jay P. Kesan (ed.), Seeds of Change (Oxford-CABI) (2007)

 

ARTICLES

Technological Change and the Design of Plant Variety Protection Regimes, ___ Chi-Kent L. Rev. ___ (forthcoming 2007) (with Smith)

Rules v. Standards for Patent Law in the Plant Sciences, 24 Law in Context 54 (2006), also in Jay P. Kesan (Ed.), Seeds of Change (Oxford-CABI) (2007)

Supplemental Forms of IP Protection for Plants, 1 Minnesota J. Law Sci. Tech. 305 (2004), reprinted in 7 Bio-Science Law Review 32 (2005)

Intellectual Property Issues in Plant Breeding and Plant Biotechnology, in Biotechnology, Gene Flow, and Intellectual Property Rights: An Agricultural Summit, Purdue Univ. Pub. RB-995 (2002)

Intellectual Property Protection for Plant Innovation: Unresolved Issues After J.E.M. v. Pioneer, 20 Nature/Biotechnology 1161 (2002) (with Kesan)

U.S. Plant Variety Protection: Sound and Fury. . .?, 39 U. Houston L. Rev. 727 (2002) (with Kesan)

Sustainable Agriculture, Patent Rights, and Plant Innovation, 9 Ind. J. Global Legal Studies 91 (2001)

Designing an Optimal Intellectual Property System for Plants: A Supreme Court Debate, 19 Nature/Biotechnology 981 (with Kesan) (October 2001)