Agendas on patents

Agendas on patents

Published Jan 2002

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WIPO, the patent agenda and development

This issue of the South Centre Bulletin focuses on patent issues and in particular the WIPO patent agenda. The editor argues that WIPO is re-emerging as an important platform for the development of IP regulation and that developing countries need to engage with them and articulate their concerns as fully as has been the case at the WTO. The Patent Agenda process, it is argued, provides an excellent opportunity for this re-engagement and requires the attention of developing countries to steer the process to suit their economic interests and not those of the United States and the European Union.

Articles in the bulletin are as follows:

  • WIPO's Patent Agenda: For Whom
  • The WIPO Patent Agenda Must Promote Development
  • CBD & the Bonn Guidelines on Access & Benefit Sharing
  • FAO-CGIAR ‘Trusteeship’ Biopiracy by Another Name
  • The Harvard Mouse Cannot Be Patented in Canada

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