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Commission on Intellectual Property Rights (CIPR) UK Government IPR Commission's website containing background, papers, conference reports and UK government response. Commission's Report: "Integrating IPRs and Development Policy" available in many languages. International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture UKabc portal on the IT PGRFA (International Seed Treaty) that governs the access, use, conservation and development of the genetic resources of food security crop and forage species. Treaty outlaws IPRs on selected PGRFA. Links to all official FAO, media and CSO resources on the Treaty. UPOV - International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants Website of the institution that governs this 50 nation Convention on Plant Variety Protection (PVP) of crops and flowers. Details of the Convention, membership, conduct, implementation and so on. TRIPs, Sui Generis and Plant Variety Protection Third World Network's pages on IP issues. Extensive and historical coverage of the issues from an authoritative developing country perspective. Small-scale Producers' Intellectual Rights to Agricultural Biodiversity Introduction to the issues in a Kenyan context, with an emphasis on farmers, pastoralists and fisherfolk, and the need for protocols on intellectual property. Includes Via Campesina's statement on Farmers' Rights. Intellectual Property and Community Rights Authoritative introduction to these issues by Genetic Resources Action International (GRAIN) with links to key documents on patents, PVP, WTO/TRIPs and corporate control of agricultural biodiversity. TRIPs, Biodiversity and Commonwealth Countries Discussion paper prepared for the Commonwealth Secretariat on capacity building priorities for the Review of TRIPs Article 27.3(b). Extensive links to related papers and sites. WorldTrade Organisation - TRIPs / Patents pages WTO's pages on the Agreement on Trade-Related aspects of Intellectual Property rights (TRIPs), highlighting the patents clauses which include genetic resources patents. Links to all other aspects of trade and intellectual property. Alternative Mechanisms to Enhance Corporate Monopoly and BioSerfdom in the 21st Century ETC Group Communiqué on the uncertainties surrounding intellectual property rights, which, being increasingly unacceptable to industry, is why new tools for monopoly control of biological and other resources are being developed. Comparing sui generis rights systems Theme issue of Biotechnology and Development Monitor journal on Plant Variety Rights and sui generis systems. Journal covers all aspects of IPRs, seed systems and biotechnology. Links through home page of journal. |
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