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    Intellectual property rights and green technologies from Rio to Rio: an impossible dialogue?

    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 decades ahead?
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    Geographical indications, in situ conservation and traditional knowledge

    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 cases. The document demonstrates the following observations:
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    Bridging the gap on intellectual property and genetic resources in WIPO’s Intergovernmental Committee (IGC)

    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 meaningful responses to concerns relating to biodiversity and intellectual property (IP). In this regard, the study emphasises that:
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    Using TRIPS flexibilities to improve 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 Organization (WTO) Members to reduce prices and expand access to HIV medicines.
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    Intellectual property and traditional knowledge

    World Intellectual Property Organization, 2009
    Indigenous and local communities cherish traditional knowledge (TK) as a part of their cultural identities.
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    Does TRIPS Art. 66.2 encourage technology transfer to LDCs?: an analysis of country submissions to the TRIPS Council (1999-2007)

    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.
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    The global debate on the enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights and developing countries

    International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, 2009
    This paper seeks to provide an economic perspective on intellectual property rights enforcement. It evaluates the welfare effects of different forms of IPRs infringements and reviews the economic impact of piracy and counterfeiting.
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    Resources, rules and international political economy: the politics of development in the WTO

    Global Development and Environment Institute, Tufts University, 2009
    This working paper examines the contemporary politics of IP and investment in the WTO. The paper examines the conflicts that pit developing and developed countries against each other in these two areas, and analyses developed countries’ efforts to push beyond the TRIPS and TRIMS agreements.
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    The global politics of pharmaceutical monopoly power

    Access to Essential Medicines Campaign, MSF, 2009
    This paper states that many countries were able to use the TRIPS flexibilities to access lower-priced generic drugs. However, as pharmaceutical product patents start to be granted in producing countries, this situation will change.
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    Publish or patent? Knowledge dissemination in agricultural biotechnology

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2008
    The development of new technologies, together with changes in institutional environments toward privatisation of research outputs, has given scientists different incentives to disseminate their research outputs. This paper discusses the recent trends in plant transformation research by examining patent and journal publication data during the last decade.

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