Genetic Resources
Action Aid Food Rights Campaign: TRIPs review
Resources related to Action Aid's campaign on genetic resources with links to papers on IPRs, TRIPs, GM crops, agricultural trade and corporate control.
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 bi…
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 Pol…
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. Li…
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 agricul…
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 specie…
People, Plants and Patents
Full text of 1994 book on the impact of intellectual property on trade, agricultural biodiversity, and rural society by The Crucible Group, hosted by IDRC.
Porto Alegre Treaty to Share the Global Commons
Full text and background of proposed treaty designed to ensure that governments and Indigenous Peoples, who are the caretakers of their part of the genetic commons, establish the a…
Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO)
Site contains Trade and Development pages which include all QUNO publications on Trade and Intellectual Property, including aspects related to: Food, Sui Generis systems, Biotechno…
Seeding Solutions
Full text and publication details of Volume 1 (ownership, conservation and exchange of genetic resources) and Volume 2 (legal mechanisms) which update People, Plants and Patents. P…
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 Campesin…
The True Cost of Gene Patents: The Economic and Social Consequences of Patenting Genes and Living Organisms
This Greenpeace report is one in a series that call for a substantial restriction of, or a complete end to, the patenting of genes and living organisms(2004)
Trade, Intellectual Property, Food and Biodiversity
Discussion paper prepared for the Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO) on key issues and options for the review of Article 27.3(b) of the WTO/TRIPs Agreement. Includes discussion of…
Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Prior Art Database (TEK*PAD)
An online, searchable archive of public domain documented traditional ecological knowledge concerning indigenous knowledge and plant species uses necessary to establish prior art.
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.
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.
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, implementa…
WIPO: Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge, and Folklore
World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) pages on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources with links to Traditional Knowledge, and Folklore. Includes coverage of the int…
World Patent System
Review by GRAIN of moves by the World Intellectual Property Organisation to implement a single global system for approval and administration of patents.
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 al…
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