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Traditional Knowledge

Updates

• GE Cotton Offers Short-term Benefits, but Unpredictable Long-term Effects
• Adoption of Patented Seeds in India Raises Questions over Preservation of Local Seed Varieties
• Proposed Amendment to WTO Could Nullify Existing Patents
• Brazil Seeks to Apply Traditional Knowledge for Pharmaceutical Purposes, Prevention of Biopiracy
• Office of the United States Trade Representative Releases Draft Text for Proposed U.S.-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement
• WIPO Open Forum on the Draft Substantive Patent Law Treaty in Progress
• Traditional Knowledge Digital Library Seeks to Prevent Biopiracy
• ETC Reports on Impact of Nanotechnology Patents for Global South
• WHO Holds Workshop and Open Forum on IP, Innovation and Health
• Database of Traditional Tibetan Drugs Goes Online
• EPO Upholds Revocation of Neem Patent
• Biodiverse Countries Ask for Treaty on Access and Benefit-Sharing
• Digital Library to Protect Indigenous Knowledge
• Traditional Knowledge in Social-Ecological Systems - Ecology & Society Special Feature
• World Bank Releases Two Books on IP and Development
• April 2005: WIPO Meeting on Establishing a Development Agenda
• Profits from Indigenous Knowledge Must Be Shared: Opinion – The Times of India
• UNEP and WIPO Release Study on Access and Benefit-Sharing
• Egypt Establishes National Gene Bank for Native Species
• Malaysian State Acts to Thwart Biopirates
• Samoa to Profit from Indigenous Knowledge Deal
• Traditional Medicines Must Be Registered and Studied
• USPTO Supports Greater Protection for Traditional Knowledge and Folklore
• Pro bono lawyers challenge patents on Maca
• Peruvian delegation to WIPO submits report on Maca patents

Publications

• Final Report of the Sixth Session of the WIPO IGC on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore
• Integrating Intellectual Property Rights and Development
• Intellectual Property and Traditional Ecological Knowledge: Institutionally Globalized Biopiracy?
• Traditional Knowledge and Intellectual Property

Meetings

• 30 Nov 2006 8:30: Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge, and Folklore: Tenth Session
• 25 Apr 2006 9:00: Semiconductor Customer Partnership meeting
• 24 Apr 2006 8:30: Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore: Ninth Session
• 19 Feb 2006 13:45: AAAS-SIPPI Annual Meeting Symposium: Scientific Research, Traditional Knowledge, and the Research Commons
• 9 Sep 2004 9:00: Meeting of the Cultural Property Advisory Committee
• 16 Jul 2004: International Intellectual Property Law Conference
• 15 Mar 2004: Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore (Sixth Session) WIPO