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The European Generics Association will be hosting the 8th EGA Legal Affairs Forum between the 22 and 23 March 2012 in Brussels. It will feature an interesting programme including: Recent developments on SPCs: • SPCs caselaw and legislation update – The galanthamine and the memantine decisions – The Medeva and the Georgetown references to . . . → Read More: 8th EGA Legal Affairs Forum Johanna Gibson’s “Traditional Knowledge and Intellectual Property: Law and Practice” won’t be released by the OUP until July, but at 704 pages, it looks well worth the wait. What will be in it? Topics promised include benefit-sharing, ownership, creation of intellectual property rights, disclosure of origin, coherence and consistency with international intellectual property regimes. . . . → Read More: Traditional Knowledge and Intellectual Property This is a challenging question indeed, which is addressed in the current issue of The International Journal of Ecological Economics and Statistics (Vol. 26, Issue No.3, 2012) in its special volume titled “Socioeconomics and Management of Bioprospecting“. The question of “Is the Value of Bioprospecting Contracts Too Low?” is the title of the Markanya . . . → Read More: Is the Value of Bioprospecting Contracts too low? 30th January this year will be a busy day for CBD and ABS workshops. Taking place on the same day are the APA African Initiative: 6th Panafrican Workshop on Access to genetic resources and sharing of the benefits (ABS), Limbé, Cameroun and the SCBD: Sub-Regional Workshop for Central, South and East Africa on Capacity-building . . . → Read More: 6th Panafrican Workshop on Access to genetic resources and sharing of the benefits (ABS) 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 . . . → Read More: Nagoya Protocol – Guinea and Morocco sign |
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