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BIO-IPR Resource Pointer NEWS CLIPS & BLOGS
World Intellectual Property Organisation, "WIPO member
states extend international work on protection of
traditional knowledge, genetic resources and folklore",
WIPO press release PR/2007/522, Geneva, 2 October 2007. [As
the WIPO committee chair puts it, this work is about
"strengthening the practical recognition and protection of
traditional knowledge in the intellectual property system"
-- not outside it.]
Aarti Dhar, "Environmentalists
seek legal protection for People's Biodiversity
Registers", The Hindu, 1 October 2007. [This is vital in
view of move to integrate PBRs into a national database.]
William New, "WIPO launches new agenda
on IP and development", IP Watch, Geneva, 29 September
2007.
Sreekumar
Raghavan, "Unsung hero: Tale of an ingenious farmer",
Commodity Online, Ahmedabad, 27 September 2007.
Tom Knudson, "Starbucks calls
its coffee worker-friendly -- but in Ethiopia, a day's pay
is a dollar", Sacramento Bee, 25 September 2007.
"WTO panel to probe US-China dispute on IPR
protection", Xinhua, Beijing, 25 September 2007.
Michael Lasky et al., "New US
patent office rules substantially increase burdens and
risks to patent applicants", Mondaq, London, 21 September
2007.
William New, "Pressures high on eve of WIPO
General Assembly; DG under fire", Intellectual Property
Watch, Geneva, 20 September 2007.
David Cronin, "Concern rises over EU
bilaterals with developing countries", Intellectual
Property Watch, Geneva, 20 September 2007.
Nancy Scola, "Why Iraqi farmers might prefer death
to Paul Bremer's Order 81", AlterNet, 19 September 2007.
[Heard about the thousands of farmer suicides in India?
Well, Iraqi farmers may be next thanks to the work of US
diplomat Paul Bremer and his Monsanto friends.]
"Bolivia for sovereignty in EU talks", Prensa Latina,
17 September 2007. [Bolivia will demand sovereignty of
natural resources, public services and intellectual
property in its trade negotiations with the European
Union.]
Maria Angeles Moreno, "La Audiencia
dicta la primera sentencia condenatoria por piratear
semillas", El Heraldo, Teruel, 11 de septiembre 2007. [For
the first time ever, someone in Spain has been convicted
for "seed piracy": six months of jail and a EUR 10,800 fine
for a fertilizer and grains vendor.]
"Biodiversity now a top priority", Viet Nam
News, 15 September 2007. [More than 100 biologists and
intellectual property managers from Switzerland and
research agencies across the southern region met in HCM
City to discuss the protection of inventions related to
biodiversity and genetic resources.]
Lorraine Heller, "Monsanto, Dow
join forces for new GM corn", Food Navigator Europe, 17
September 2007.
Andrew Kimbrell, "Replace biopiracy with
biodemocracy", The Canadian, 14 September 2007.
Iain Mackenzie, "Biopiracy
continues in the Amazon", editorial, The Canadian, 14
September 2007.
David Dickson, "'Biopiracy'
requires reasoned treatment", SciDev.Net, London, 14
September 2007.
Liza Porteus, "WIPO's Gurry details efforts on
international patent needs", IP Watch, Geneva, 12
September 2007.
Social organizations of Bolivia, "Manifesto to the
Bolivian People", Bolivia Rising,10 September 2007.
Jon Van, "Proposals for
patent reform raising fears",Chicago Tribune, 7 September
2007.
Hepeng Jia,
"Developing nations 'need genetic resources rules'",
SciDev.Net, London, 6 September 2007. [Countries lack legal
definition of what constitutes payable genetic resources,
and clarity on who owns these resources: national
governments or local communities of origin.]
Nicolas
Misculin, "Monsanto loses Spanish court case on Argentine
soy", Reuters, 6 September 2007.
Abby
Simons, "ISU, Monsanto settle patent suit", DesMoines
Register, 4 September 2007. [Iowa State University has
settled its patent infringment lawsuit against Monsanto,
with the two parties agreeing to collaborate in the
development of soybeans containing low levels of trans
fat.]
"Illegal seed
users targeted by random farm searches", North Queensland
Register, Australia, 3 September 2007.
Mary Stucky, "Debate ensues over Peru's
'natural Viagra'", NBC, 3 September 2007. [Long before the
drug Viagra, Indians in Peru had their own libido enhancer
-- an unassuming root called maca. Maca caught the
attention of a US company, which got a patent on it, and
just a few months ago, Wal-Mart started selling the
tonic.]
"Farmers' rights in context of global
regime on intellectual property rights", The Rising Nepal,
Kathmandu, 31 August 2007.
Padmaparna Ghosh, "Government to redefine
basmati rice as patent claims hit exports", Wall Street
Journal, 15 August 2007. PAPERS & REPORTS
Palesa Tlhapi Guye, "The gap between
indigenous peoples' demands and WIPO's framework on
traditional knowledged", Centre for International
Environmental Law, Geneva, September 2007, 16pp.
International Institute for Sustainable
Development, "Summary of the First International Technical
Conference on Animal Genetic Resources for Food and
Agriculture", Earth Negotiations Bulletin, IISD, Canada, 10
September 2007.
Pablo Eyzaguirre, Monica Di Gregorio and Ruth Meinzen-Dick
(eds), "Property rights, collective action, and local
conservation of genetic resources", World Development,
Elsevier, Vol 35, Issue 9, September 2007, pp. 1481-1594
Sisule F. Musungu,
"An analysis of the EC non-paper on the objectives and
possible elements of an IP section in the EC-Pacific EPA",
A study commissioned by the Catholic Agency for Overseas
Development and co-sponsored by the International Centre
for Trade and Sustainable Development, ICTSD, Geneva,
August 2007.
Frederick M. Abbott and Carlos M.
Correa, "World Trade Organization accession agreements:
intellectual property issues", QUNO, Geneva, May 2007, 60
pp. BOOKS
"Accessing
and sharing the benefits of the genomics revolution",
Springer, July 2007, 211 pp. [Explores the legal, economic
and political context for the debate about intellectual
property rights for traditional knowledge and genetic
resources and critically analyses the theory and practice
of access and benefits sharing efforts around the world.]
MEETINGS & CONFERENCES
Documents for the fifth meeting of the Convention on
Biological Diversity's ad hoc open-ended working group on
Article 8(j) and related provisions, to be held 15-19
October 2007 in Montreal, are online. CAMPAIGNS & INITIATIVES
The 2007
Right Livelihood Award has been awarded to (among others)
Percy and Louise Schmeiser "for their courage in defending
biodiversity and farmers' rights, and challenging the
environmental and moral perversity of current
interpretations of patent laws". OFF THE BEATEN TRACK
Mario Osava,
"Brazil: Warning - these computers come with strings
attached", Inter Press Service, Rio de Janeiro, 1 October
2007. [The declaration the Dell computer company is
requiring its Brazilian customers to sign, promising their
computers will not be exported to the "axis of evil",
highlights the difficulties faced by scientific research
due to US geopolitical considerations -- mirroring how
Brazil's biopiracy regulations frustrate US researchers?]
Eliot Van Buskirk, "Study: fair use was worth $4.5
trillion to US economy in 2006", Listening Post, Wired
blog, 17 September 2007.
Krista Henry, "Rastas seek 'council' on
rights", Jamaica Gleaner, 16 September 2007. [The
Ethio-Africa Diaspora Union Millennium Council hopes to
set a standard for Rastafari with the help of WIPO that
everyone worldwide would have to follow.]
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