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  African policy dialogues on biotechnology: background paper

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2003

  This background paper examines the positive and negative aspects of intellectual property rights (IPR) in agricultural biotechnologies with respect to the varying positions of different stakeholders.
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  Resource book on TRIPS and development: an authoritative and practical guide to the TRIPS agreement

  United Nations [UN] Conference on Trade and Development, 2005

  This book, structured as a series of downloadable sections, presents a comprehensive yet practical guide to the Trade Related International Property Rights (TRIPS) agreement.
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  Disclosure requirements: ensuring mutual supportiveness between the WTO TRIPS agreement and the CBD

  World Conservation Union, 2005

  The misappropriation of genetic resources and traditional knowledge continues to elicit serious misgivings among the biodiversity community and indigenous peoples. High-profile cases – such as the neem tree, basmati rice and maca – fuelled calls for a more effective system to prevent such illegal access and ensure fair and equitable benefit-sharing.
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  TRIPS agreement and access to drugs in developing countries

  Sur - International Journal on Human Rights, 2005

  This article examines the progress made in the process to lend more flexibility to the TRIPS Agreement for medical drugs, and shows how the Doha Declaration and the 2003 Decision of the TRIPS Board on the implementation of its paragraph 6 are insufficient to ensure a reduction in prices and the negotiation of voluntary licenses.The paper argues that:the implementation of the Decision on
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  A briefing paper for DFID: update on China and India and access to medicines

  DFID Health Resource Centre (HRC), 2005

  This paper, from the DFID Health Resource Centre, examines how Intellectual Property (IP) agreements impact upon the pharmaceutical sector in China and India, and how this in turn affects access to medicines.
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  Results from an international stakeholder survey on farmers’ rights

  Fridtjof Nansen Institute, 2005

  This background study presents the findings of an international stakeholder survey on farmers’ rights. The survey aims to facilitate a common understanding and develop an empirical basis for proposals to the Governing Body of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA) on concrete measures to be taken to implement its provisions on this topic.
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  Intellectual property and biological resources: an overview of key issues and current debates.

  Wuppertal Institute, 2005

  This paper aims to provide a comprehensive background and overview of key issues, debates and positions related to the international regulation and application of intellectual property rights over biological resources. This includes biotechnology and the use and protection of the traditional knowledge of indigenous and local communities.
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  Bird flu: helping to put access to medicines back on the trade agenda?

  Eldis News Weblog, 2005

  In this Eldis commentary on the 2005 Bird Flu epidemic, focuses on IPR issues and a meeting of the World Trade Organization's (WTO) Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property (TRIPS) Council.
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  Does intellectual property protection spur technological change?

  Global Development Network, 2004

  Of the diverse factors motivating technological change, one factor that has received increasing attention in the recent past is the protection of intellectual property rights. This paper seeks to empirically analyze the influence that intellectual property protection might have on innovation and technological change.
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  The international copyright system: limitations, exceptions and public interest considerations for developing countries in the digital environment

  IPRsonline.org, 2005

  This paper discusses the limitations and exceptions that exist within the international copyright system as they relate to developing countries' access to creative works.

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