BIO-IPR

BIO-IPR is an electronic information service produced by GRAIN. Its purpose is to disseminate news and analysis about recent developments in the field of intellectual property rights (IPRs) related to biodiversity and associated knowledge, especially in developing countries.

Operating through an email list, which anyone can subscribe to free of charge, BIO-IPR is a strictly non-commercial and educational service tailoured to nonprofit organisations and individuals active in the struggle against IPRs on life.

BIO-IPR has been in production since September 1998. We aim to keep it a low-volume list, with about one posting per week. Most of the material is in English, but some is in French or Spanish. We currently have a subscribership of 1,300 readers in 85 countries.

You can consult the full archives freely here on our website. If you want to subscribe , we ask you to answer a few questions which have no other purpose than to let us internally monitor who it's going to. Thanks for putting up with this.

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