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Intellectual property rights: developments since the fourth WTO Ministerial Conference
International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, 2003This February 2003 update to the Doha Round Briefing Series provides commentary on the state of play with regard to the various Doha mandates related to IPRs. The short briefing summarises the issues involved, documents the proposed solutions and notes what agreement, if any, has been reached. The mandates covered includeTRIPS and Public Health.DocumentIPRs, biotechnology and food security
Gapresearch.org, IDS, 2002This paper examines the development and enforcement of intellectual property rights (IPRs) at the international and national level and the impacts of IPRs on biotechnology, agricultural practices and food security concerns in the context of globalisation.DocumentDefensive publishing: a strategy for maintaining intellectual property as public goods
Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2002Defensive publication is the practice of disclosing details about innovations to the public, thereby preserving the innovation as a public good by preventing others from patenting it.DocumentIntellectual property rights, licensing, and innovation
World Bank, 2003This paper focuses on the potential impacts of strong IPR protection on technology flow and access to innovations in developing countries.DocumentBiotechnology and the issues interconnected with and through it
Biowatch South Africa, 2002This paper takes a step back from the policy issues surrounding biotechnology and its role in development to present a broad discussion of the biotechnology sector and its implications.The paper argues that if biotechnology is to develop usefully, the risks involved with it should be prevented.DocumentThe WIPO patent agenda: the risks for developing countries
South Centre, 2002This paper is aimed at assessing some of the implications of the Patent Agenda, in the context of the ongoing debates on the benefits and costs of intellectual property protection for developing and least developed countries.DocumentThe international debate on traditional knowledge as prior art in the patent system: issues and options for developing countries
South Centre, 2002This paper examines some aspects of the debate on whether and how traditional knowledge could formally be considered as prior art during the examination of patent applications.DocumentBiotechnology Industry Organisation (BIO) and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation: what policy changes are needed? The importance of incentives
Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, 2002This document, produced by kaisernetwork.org from the Kaiser Family Group, presents the transcript of the second plenary session of panel discussions in the conference titled ‘Biotechnology Industry Organisation (BIO) and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation - what policy changes are needed? The importance of incentives’.DocumentGlobal Health Forum II: intellectual property rights and global health: challenges for access and R&D
Institute for Global Health, 2000The impact of stronger intellectual property (IP) rights regimes on public health has become the subject of considerable concern within international development circles. Views have frequently been divided between those who see strong IP regimes as likely to restrict access to medicines, and those who see patent protection as necessary to encourage development of new drugs and treatments.DocumentGlobal Health Forum I: creating global markets for neglected drugs and vaccines: a challenge for public-private partnership
Institute for Global Health, 2000Efforts to put the health gap between rich and poor countries at the top of the development political agenda have been renewed in recent years.Pages