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By Curious Amicus, on January 17th, 2012
By Curious Amicus, on January 11th, 2012
The latest signatories to the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) are Guinea and Morocco on 9 December 2011. The total number of signatories is now 70. The Nagoya Protocol was opened for signature in February 2011. 90 days after deposit of the 50th instrument of ratification, the Nagoya Protocol will enter into force.
By Curious Amicus, on January 4th, 2012
Due to be published on May 31st, 2012 is
Genetic Resources, Equity and International Law by Camena Guneratne.
Dr Guneratne is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Legal Studies at the Open University of Sri Lanka.
- Publisher: Edward Elgar Pub
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0857934945
- ISBN-13: 978-0857934949
By Curious Amicus, on December 20th, 2011
Bradford, in her 2009 paper ‘Trademark Dilution and Emotion’, sheds some unexpected light on the story of the Santa Claus traditionally featured in advertisements for Coca-Cola:
A third example is Coca-Cola, who in the 1930s used illustrations of Santa Claus to persuade consumers to drink its beverage even in cold weather. Not only was Coca Cola ‘free-riding’ off of St Nicholas’ positive emotional associations, it was not even the first company to do it. White Rock Ginger Ale, the brand leader for mineral water and ginger ale, had already used Santa Claus in its advertising for 15 years. Coke’s advertising campaign may have been an attempt to create associations with a more successful beverage company.
Bradford, Laura R., Trademark Dilution and Emotion (January 29, 2009). Berkley Technology Law Journal, Forthcoming; George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 09-08. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1334925
By dibsmft, on December 18th, 2011
Intellectual Property and Biodiversity: Rights to Animal Genetic Resources by Michelangelo Temmerman is to be published on 19th December.
This is a significant resource at 320 pages. This book covers:
the continuing applicability of trademarks, geographical indications, copyright, and trade secrets;
patentability rules and exclusions;
the extension of patent rights over progeny;
the underlying elements deciding on the shape of regulation – innovation, economic development, agriculture, human rights, animal welfare, the conservation of resources, and equal trading conditions;
the meaning of ‘essentially biotechnological processes’;
the legal definitions of ‘morality’ and ‘ordre public’ in the context of animal welfare;
and the future of international patent law in the context of global governance theories.
Intellectual Property and Biodiversity has a detailed investigation of how three major jurisdictions – the European Union, the United States, and Canada – have regulated the matter and highlights unresolved issues in the laws dealing with animal genetic resources.
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