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Food and Agriculture

Updates

• Public Patent Foundation Formally Requests Review and Revocation of Four Patents on Genetically Engineered Crops
• Push for Awareness of the “Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers’ Rights Act”
• 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
• Intellectual Property Protection Stalls U.S.-Andean Nation Trade Talks
• ETC Reports on Impact of Nanotechnology Patents for Global South
• Federal Circuit Court to Decide If Expressed Sequence Tags Are Patentable
• New Plant Biotechnology Will Be Open-Source
• April 2005: WIPO Meeting on Establishing a Development Agenda
• Profits from Indigenous Knowledge Must Be Shared: Opinion – The Times of India
• Egypt Establishes National Gene Bank for Native Species
• “Innovation Sails Free”: Newsweek Article on Open Source Science
• Food Scientist Wins Infringement Suit Against ConAgra
• Open Source Biotech Starts in Earnest
• Rights to Decaf Coffee Plant in Dispute
• African Agricultural Technology Foundation Opens in Kenya
• Canadian Supreme Court rules in Favor of Monsanto
• Monsanto shelves plans for GM wheat
• Global seed treaty gets the go-ahead

Legislation

• Pharmaceutical Market Access and Drug Safety Act of 2004
• Plant Breeders Equity Act of 2003

Publications

• American Patent Policy, Biotechnology, and African Agriculture: The Case for Policy Change
• Integrating Intellectual Property Rights and Development
• 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 Oct 2004 8:30: Global Challenges for Guiding and Managing Biological Technologies - meeting of the NAS Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources
• 18 Sep 2004: Patent Policy: Using, Abusing and Reforming
• 13 Sep 2004 8:30: Advisory Committee on Biotechnology and 21st Century Agriculture
• 13 Sep 2004: The Future of WIPO
• 25 May 2004: Multilateralism at a Crossroads: WTO annual public symposium
• 15 Mar 2004: Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore (Sixth Session) WIPO
• 12 Feb 2004: AAAS Annual Meeting

Subcategories

• Intellectual Property and Plants
• Plant Patents