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.
Tag: genetic resources
Genetic Resources, Equity and International Law.
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
Intellectual Property and Biodiversity
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.
