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  The "state of the debate" on traditional knowledge

  United Nations [UN] Conference on Trade and Development, 2002

  This document summarizes the current "state of the debate" in major intergovernmental forums dealing with traditional knowledge (TK) and access to genetic resources and benefit sharing.
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  2002 National Trade Estimate Report on Foreign Trade Barriers

  United States Trade Representative, 2002

  This USTR report provides an inventory of the most important foreign barriers affecting U.S. exports of goods and services, foreign direct investment by U.S. persons, and protection of intellectual property rights. Its purpose is to guide US policy in reducing or eliminating these barriers and to act as a tool in enforcing U.S. trade laws.
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  Developing countries and international IP standard-setting

  Commission on Intellectual Property Rights, 2002

  The report examines the extent to which developing countries influence outcomes in the international intellectual property standard-setting process. To achieve this the author uses the analytical framework developed by Braithwaite and Drahos in Global Business Regulation (GBR). It concludes that developing countries have comparatively little influence.
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  Access to genetic resources, gene-based inventions and agriculture: study paper 3a

  Commission on Intellectual Property Rights, 2002

  Background briefing covering 4 issues areas relating to intellectual property rights and plant genetic resources and making recommendations for future policy making. The issues and recommendations are as follows:1.
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  Access to genetic resources, gene-based inventions and agriculture: study paper 3b

  Commission on Intellectual Property Rights, 2002

  This report addresses policy options for developing countries in implementing legislation dealing with plant variety rights, farmers’ rights and bioprospecting in the context of the following key issues: The link between Article 27.3(b) of TRIPS and development - The concerns of developing countries over the tension between the development and technology transfer objectives of the TRIPS A
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  WTO TRIPS agreement and its implications for access to medicines in developing countries

  Commission on Intellectual Property Rights, 2002

  This detailed issue briefing examines TRIPS in light of the Doha Declaration which mandates that TRIPS be interpreted in a manner that supports public health interests and promotes access to medicines.The study accepts the consensus of experts that developing countries should make use of policy options such as compulsory licensing and parallel importation to increase the supply of low-price med
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  Using innovative action to meet global health needs through existing intellectual property regimes

  Commission on Intellectual Property Rights, 2002

  This report investigates the literature and on-going political debates surrounding two issues. The first of these is the link between intellectual property rights (IPRs) and research and development (R&D), especially in diseases prevalent predominately in the developing world (henceforth, neglected diseases).
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  Institutional issues for developing countries in intellectual property policymaking, administration and enforcement

  Commission on Intellectual Property Rights, 2002

  Study examining the institutional capacities for intellectual property policy making, administration and enforcement which exist in poor countries and the recent technical co-operation programmes which have sought to re-enforce them.
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  Human genome patents and developing countries

  Commission on Intellectual Property Rights, 2002

  This report considers a number of questions relating to the issue of how information on the human genome is made available, and to what extent national patent systems should be allowed to impinge on the international consensus as expressed by the UNESCO Declaration on the Human Genome and Human Rights, 1997.The report is divided into sections each considering one important question in this deba
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  PVP in the South: caving in to UPOV

  GRAIN, 2002

  A checklist of which developing countries have enacted plant variety protection laws, and which are flirting with UPOV membership, in the name of compliance with the WTO TRIPS Agreement (Article 27.3b).The paper draws two conclusions from this data:Despite the threat of trade sanctions from unmet deadlines, less than half (40%) of the developing country members of WTO have implemented T

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