Seed law in Argentina: vicissitudes of a reform that (still) was not

There have been various attempts to modify the Seed Law in Argentina since 2003. The intention is to provide greater certainty to the companies by cutting the rights of rural producers. A new impulse, with the same orientation, occurred in 2012. Although not all the actors involved have participated with the same intensity and legitimacy on discussion, it was inserted (at least in part) in the public space. However, the debate`s axis was centered almost exclusively on a single element: the so-called own use of seeds, but only in its articulation with the royalties`s payments. This article focuses on the background that led to the current discussion; at the same time it analyzes some problematic knots of what the intellectual property in seeds implies, in order to shed light on some issues that were absent in the debate.