Intellectual Property Rights
- TRIPS and Convention on Biological Diversity should be implemented in a mutually supportive manner
- B. Dhar; R.V. Anuradha / South Asia Watch on Trade, Economics & Environment, 2005
- The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) provides a multilaterally agreed set of rules for access to and sharing of benefits arising out of the commercial use of genetic resources, while WTO TRIPS agreement is sought to protect mo...
- Well-designed IPR legislation is critical for small-scale farmers to continue as stewards of agro-biodiversity
- R. Andersen / South Asia Watch on Trade, Economics & Environment, 2007
- Farmers’ rights are about enabling farmers to continue as stewards and innovators of agro-biodiversity, and about rewarding them for their contribution to the global genetic pool. This policy brief outlines central challenges an...
- Avoiding possible conflict between seed and plant-variety-protection laws
- S.B. Ravi / South Asia Watch on Trade, Economics & Environment, 2009
- The Indian seed policy and related laws and regulations are stand-alone domestic devices for setting and enforcing national seed standards. This policy brief is an analysis of the complementarities and contradictions between the legis...
- How could Thailand use TRIPS to ensure the affordability of medicines for its poor patients?
- C. Oh / South Asia Watch on Trade, Economics & Environment, 2009
- High prices of medicines is often the major cause of inaccessibility of medicines for poor patients in developing countries, and TRIPS agreement is often deemed as a main cause to raise medicines’ prices. However, there are aven...
- Enhancing the diffusion of green technologies − TRIPS-based parameters are needed to develop an IPRs’ constructive discussion
- A.A. Latif / International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, 2012
- Why were participant countries in the Rio+20 conferences (2012) not able to find any common ground on the role of intellectual property rights (IPRs) as they sought to identify a path for achieving “green economy” in the d...
- Value chains in the context of geographical indications
- J.L. Guerra / International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, 2010
- Geographical indications (GIs) have been a neglected area in the various fora addressing biodiversity and intellectual property. This policy brief focuses on basic GI concepts and the overall conclusion of the overview of over 30 GI c...
- World Intellectual Property Organization deliberations on disclosure requirements should be perceived as complementary to WTO outcomes
- D. Vivas-Eugui / International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, 2012
- The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) committee on intellectual property and genetic resources (IGC) was created in 2000. This report argues that the IGC has an historic opportunity to contribute towards providing meanin...
- Incorporating flexibilities of TRIPS to ensure better access to HIV treatment
- Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2011
- This policy brief describes how the flexibilities contained in the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Agreement and reaffirmed by the Doha Declaration provide important opportunities for World Trade Organiza...
- How to protect traditional knowledge
- World Intellectual Property Organization, 2009
- Indigenous and local communities cherish traditional knowledge (TK) as a part of their cultural identities. The work of the WIPO Intergovernmental committee on intellectual property and genetic resources, traditional knowledge and fol...
- What should be considered to improve monitoring of compliance with TRIPS Art. 66.2?
- S. Moon / United Nations [UN] Conference on Trade and Development, 2008
- The issue of whether or not technology transfer to less developed countries (LDC) members of the WTO as a result of TRIPS-mandated incentives is a broad question requiring empirical study. This policy brief addresses just one facet of...
- TRIPS and Convention on Biological Diversity should be implemented in a mutually supportive manner
- B. Dhar; R.V. Anuradha / South Asia Watch on Trade, Economics & Environment, 2005
- The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) provides a multilaterally agreed set of rules for access to and sharing of benefits arising out of the commercial use of genetic resources, while WTO TRIPS agreement is sought to protect mo...
- Well-designed IPR legislation is critical for small-scale farmers to continue as stewards of agro-biodiversity
- R. Andersen / South Asia Watch on Trade, Economics & Environment, 2007
- Farmers’ rights are about enabling farmers to continue as stewards and innovators of agro-biodiversity, and about rewarding them for their contribution to the global genetic pool. This policy brief outlines central challenges an...
- Avoiding possible conflict between seed and plant-variety-protection laws
- S.B. Ravi / South Asia Watch on Trade, Economics & Environment, 2009
- The Indian seed policy and related laws and regulations are stand-alone domestic devices for setting and enforcing national seed standards. This policy brief is an analysis of the complementarities and contradictions between the legis...
- How could Thailand use TRIPS to ensure the affordability of medicines for its poor patients?
- C. Oh / South Asia Watch on Trade, Economics & Environment, 2009
- High prices of medicines is often the major cause of inaccessibility of medicines for poor patients in developing countries, and TRIPS agreement is often deemed as a main cause to raise medicines’ prices. However, there are aven...
- Enhancing the diffusion of green technologies − TRIPS-based parameters are needed to develop an IPRs’ constructive discussion
- A.A. Latif / International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, 2012
- Why were participant countries in the Rio+20 conferences (2012) not able to find any common ground on the role of intellectual property rights (IPRs) as they sought to identify a path for achieving “green economy” in the d...
- Value chains in the context of geographical indications
- J.L. Guerra / International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, 2010
- Geographical indications (GIs) have been a neglected area in the various fora addressing biodiversity and intellectual property. This policy brief focuses on basic GI concepts and the overall conclusion of the overview of over 30 GI c...
- World Intellectual Property Organization deliberations on disclosure requirements should be perceived as complementary to WTO outcomes
- D. Vivas-Eugui / International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, 2012
- The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) committee on intellectual property and genetic resources (IGC) was created in 2000. This report argues that the IGC has an historic opportunity to contribute towards providing meanin...
- Incorporating flexibilities of TRIPS to ensure better access to HIV treatment
- Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2011
- This policy brief describes how the flexibilities contained in the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Agreement and reaffirmed by the Doha Declaration provide important opportunities for World Trade Organiza...
- How to protect traditional knowledge
- World Intellectual Property Organization, 2009
- Indigenous and local communities cherish traditional knowledge (TK) as a part of their cultural identities. The work of the WIPO Intergovernmental committee on intellectual property and genetic resources, traditional knowledge and fol...
- What should be considered to improve monitoring of compliance with TRIPS Art. 66.2?
- S. Moon / United Nations [UN] Conference on Trade and Development, 2008
- The issue of whether or not technology transfer to less developed countries (LDC) members of the WTO as a result of TRIPS-mandated incentives is a broad question requiring empirical study. This policy brief addresses just one facet of...
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