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BIO-IPR Resource Pointer
Jeffrey Krasner, "Putting patents
in their place: standards for filing claims on genes
raised", Boston Globe, 29 January 2003.
Duncan
Graham-Rowe, "Britain may force DNA bar codes for food",
New Scientist, 13 February 2003.
"Declaración de Buenos Aires sobre el
Conocimiento Tradicional, los Derechos Indígenas y los
Sistemas de Propiedad Intelectual", firmado y depositado
ante las autoridades de la Propiedad Industrial de la
República Argentina en la Facultad de Derecho de la
Universidad de Buenos Aires, el 20 de febrero 2003. (A
statement on traditional knowledge, indigenous rights and
intellectual property systems. Adopted on 20 February 2003
at a meeting organised by the University of Buenos Aires
with support from UNDP, WIPO, the Argentine Patent Office
and the Argentine Ministry of Trade.)
"Greens reject environment bill as sloppy",
Business Day (Capetown), 7 February 2003. (South Africa's
draft biodiversity bill is criticised for how it attempts
to regulate bioprospecting.)
"Native species being
plundered for medicines, scientist says", The Dominion
Post, Auckland, 22 February 2003.
"Unigen Pharmaceuticals Enters Plant
Collection Collaboration Agreement", Press Release,
Broomfield, Colorado, 12 February 2003. (A corporate
bioprospecting programme involving Unigen and BioResources
International is launched in Ghana.)
Anitha Ramanna, "India's
Plant Variety and Farmers' Rights Legislation: Potential
Impact on Stakeholder Access to Genetic Resources", EPT
Discussion Paper No. 96, International Food Policy
Research Institute, Washington DC, January 2003, 36 pp.
The report of the last meeting of WIPO's
Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and
Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore
(Fourth Session, Geneva, 9-17 December 2002), dated 17
December 2002, is now online.
United Nations Development Programme,
"Protecting Creativity and Spreading Its Benefits: The Two
Sides of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)", Cooperation
South Journal, UNDP, New York, December 2002.
United Nations Environment Programme,
Our Planet, Vol 134, UNEP, Nairobi, January 2003. (The
editorial and other articles discuss IPR, biodiversity and
traditional knowledge. In English, French and Spanish.)
The Center for the Study of the Public
Domain at Duke Law School is organising a conference on
"International Public Goods and Transfer of Technology
after the TRIPS Agreement of 1994" on 4-6 April 2003.
Details are online.
Convention on Biological Diversity, "International
Regime on Access and Benefit-Sharing: Proposals for an
international regime on access and benefit-sharing", note
by the Executive Secretary for the open-ended
inter-sessional meeting on the Multi-Year Programme of Work
of the Conference of the Parties up to 2010, to be held on
17-20 March 2003 in Montreal, Canada. CBD document
UNEP/CBD/MYPOW/6 dated 7 January 2003, 10 pp. Download
from:
In December 2002, the federal
Attorney-General of Australia called for a national
inquiry on gene patenting. It will explore challenges posed
by gene technologies, and the relation between demands for
IPR protection and the public interest in this area. A
report is fue by June 2004. Details about the process are
available from the Australian Legal Reform Commission
website.
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