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Review of the TRIPS agreement: fostering the transfer of technology to developing countries
Third World Network, 2000This article examines the background and objectives of the proposals made by developing countries with an aim to reviewing the TRIPS Agreement.DocumentStudy in the relationship between the agreement on TRIPS and biodiversity related issues
European Union, 2000The main objective of the study was to provide the Commission with a comprehensive background document on the relationship between IPRs as covered by the provisions of the TRIPs agreement and biodiversity related issues.DocumentPeople, Parks and Biodiversity: Issues in Population-Environment Dynamics
American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1995This overview paper broadly addresses the complex relationship between biodiversity, people and protected areas.DocumentIndustrial Reliance on Biodiversity
UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre, 1997Overview of the extent to which industry in the developed world relies on the biodiversity of the developing world. Primitive human societies rely almost entirely on wild species for food, draught, building materials and other products, and such direct use continues in modern society.DocumentPlant variety protection to feed Africa?: Rhetoric versus reality
GRAIN, 1999The Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV) claim the introduction of plant variety protection (a form of patent law) will contribute to food security, sustainable agriculture, and the protection of the environment and of biodiversity.DocumentSui generis rights: from opposing to complementary approaches
Biotechnology and Development Monitor, 1998This article provides an integrated analysis of the different concerning the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).DocumentWhy biotech patents are patently absurd: scientific briefing on TRIPs and related issues
Institute of Science in Society, UK, 2001This scientific briefing explains why the patenting of life-forms and living processes (as covered under Article 27.3(b) of TRIPs) should be revoked and banned.Concludes that all biotech patents should be rejected on the following grounds:all involve biological processes not under the direct control of the scientist.DocumentIntellectual property protection: who needs it?
Genetic Engineering & Intellectual Property Rights Resource Center, 2001Addresses some of the arguments against IPR and indicates how strengthening intellectual property rights will enable farmers throughout the world to receive the latest developments in crop production.Conclusions:enforceable and strong IPRs are essential to encourage the transfer of the latest technologies to developing countries, and for stimulating research in these same new tecDocumentTRIPS versus biodiversity: what to do with the 1999 review of Article 27.3(b)
GRAIN, 1999This paper summarises GRAIN’s view of what should be done with TRIPS Article 27.3(b) during its 1999 Review.DocumentPeople, plants, and patents: the impact of intellectual property on trade, plant biodiversity, and rural society
International Development Research Centre, 1994The purpose of this book is to identify key IPR issues and choices and to describe the broader context within which decisions are being made.Pages