On Friday, Livestock Improvement Corporation (LIC) announced it would not be asking farmers to sign a legal contract in return for using LIC semen.
LIC Europe general manager Mark Ryder said the company would spend the next six months working with the ICBF to find a solution to the issue. A resolution to the battle between the ICBF and the New Zealand-based genetics company came on Friday after weeks of negotiations.
ICBF chief executive Seán Coughlan confirmed to the Irish Farmers Journal that talks between the ICBF and other AI companies, not just LIC, will continue to prevent this arising in the future.
Intellectual property
Coughlan said intellectual property is a whole new and “complex” area for everyone in the industry to deal with.
“In the rapidly changing environment of cattle breeding, questions and challenges around intellectual property are coming more and more to the fore.
“It is a complex area and the optimum long-term solution needs to recognise the value that all parties bring to the Irish industry.
“In that context, ICBF, AI industry partners, along with other industry stakeholders will be working together over the coming months to put a framework in place that allows all parties to continue to deliver for farmers on the ground,” Coughlan said.
This decision to put a freeze on contracts for 2017 is likely to come as relief to Eurogene AI technicians and sales representatives who were going to be charged with collecting the legal contracts once semen was purchased.
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Both sides of the debate in the LIC / ICBF standoff
On Friday, Livestock Improvement Corporation (LIC) announced it would not be asking farmers to sign a legal contract in return for using LIC semen.
LIC Europe general manager Mark Ryder said the company would spend the next six months working with the ICBF to find a solution to the issue. A resolution to the battle between the ICBF and the New Zealand-based genetics company came on Friday after weeks of negotiations.
ICBF chief executive Seán Coughlan confirmed to the Irish Farmers Journal that talks between the ICBF and other AI companies, not just LIC, will continue to prevent this arising in the future.
Intellectual property
Coughlan said intellectual property is a whole new and “complex” area for everyone in the industry to deal with.
“In the rapidly changing environment of cattle breeding, questions and challenges around intellectual property are coming more and more to the fore.
“It is a complex area and the optimum long-term solution needs to recognise the value that all parties bring to the Irish industry.
“In that context, ICBF, AI industry partners, along with other industry stakeholders will be working together over the coming months to put a framework in place that allows all parties to continue to deliver for farmers on the ground,” Coughlan said.
This decision to put a freeze on contracts for 2017 is likely to come as relief to Eurogene AI technicians and sales representatives who were going to be charged with collecting the legal contracts once semen was purchased.
Read more
Both sides of the debate in the LIC / ICBF standoff
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