BIO-IPR is an electronic information service produced by GRAIN. Its purpose is to disseminate news and analysis about recent developments in the field of intellectual property rights (IPRs) related to biodiversity and associated knowledge, especially in developing countries.
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BIO-IPR Resource Pointer, 21 April 2005
http://www.grain.org/bio-ipr/?id=440

NEWS CLIPS

Tina Butler, "Coral, Coiba and the Next Big Thing: Bioprospecting in Panama", mongabay.com, 20 April 2005.
http://news.mongabay.com/2005/0420-tina_butler.html

Rowan Hooper, "Struggle Over (Green) Gold Rush", Wired News, 19 April 2005.
http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,67244,00.html?tw=wn_tophea d_4

"Acuerdo Gobierno-Monsanto", La Manana de Cordoba (Argentina), 15 de abril del 2005.
http://www.cuencarural.com/noticias/acuerdo_gobierno_monsanto/

"Monsanto Seeks Brazil Soy Royalties: Seed Company Wants to Prevent Farmers Saving Seeds", Dow Jones News Wires, 13 April 2005.
http://www.cropchoice.com/leadstrygmo041505.html

News reports, blogs and other documentation on the Intersessional Intergovernmental Meeting on a Development Agenda for WIPO, held in Geneva on 11-13 April 2005, are available from different sources:
-- Electronic Frontier Foundation: http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/003512.php#003512
-- IP-Watch: http://www.ip-watch.org
-- Consumer Project on Technology: http://www.cptech.org/ip/wipo/iim1.html
-- South-North Development Monitor: http://lists.essential.org/pipermail/a2k/2005-April/000251.html
-- WIPO: http://www.wipo.int/meetings/en/details.jsp?meeting_id=7522

Carlos Maria Correa, "How intellectual property rights can obstruct progress, SciDev.Net, 4 April 2005
http://www.scidev.net/dossiers/index.cfm?fuseaction=dossierreaditem &dossier=13&type=3&itemid=375&language=1

Phillip B.C. Jones, "Retaining genetically engineered seed? Consider retaining a lawyer", ISB News Report, Blacksburg VA, April 2005.
http://www.isb.vt.edu/news/2005/news05.apr.html#apr0503

Mac Margolis, "Under construction", Newsweek International, 11-18 April 2005. (Brazil has tried for decades to keep developers out of the Amazon. What's needed is a realistic plan to help them.)
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7369913/site/newsweek/

Sylvain Charat, "A collective mistake", Tech Central Station, 31 March 2005.
http://www.techcentralstation.com/033105F.html

K. P. Prabhakaran Nair, "Seeds Bill: A rich harvest for MNCs?", Hindu Business Line, Chennai, 30 March 2005.
http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2005/03/30/stories/200503300024 0900.htm

Suman Sahai, "Seedy affair: Put draft anti-farmer bill through House scrutiny", Times of India, New Delhi, 25 March 2005.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1061662.cms

"Tribal women burn genetically engineered seeds in India", GM WATCH, 24 March 2005.
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=5032

PAPERS & REPORTS

Miriam Dross and Franziska Wolff, "New Elements of the International Regime on Access and Benefit-Sharing of Genetic Resources: the Role of Certificates of Origin", BfN (Federal Agency for Nature Conservation), Bonn, 2005, 181 pp.
http://www.oeko.de/oekodoc/233/2005-001-en.pdf

N.P. Louwaars, R. Tripp, D. Eaton, V. Henson-Apollonio, R. Hu, M. Mendoza, F. Muhhuku, S. Pal & J. Wekundah, "Impacts of Strengthened Intellectual Property Rights Regimes on the Plant Breeding Industry in Developing Countries: A Synthesis of Five Case Studies", Report commissioned by the World Bank, Wageningen UR, February 2005, 176 pp.
http://www.cgn.wageningen-ur.nl/pgr/images/IPR%20in%20breeding%20in dustry.pdf
or download from http://www.cgn.wageningen-ur.nl/pgr/

Wenrong Helen Huang, Jenny J. Yeh and Dennis Fernandez, "Patent Prosecution Strategies for Biotechnological Inventions", IP Strategy Today, 14-2005, bioDevelopments, Ithaca, pp. 1-10.
http://www.biodevelopments.org/ip/ipst14.pdf

International Chambers of Commerce, "IP Roadmap 2005: Current and emerging intellectual property issues for business", ICC, Paris, 2005, 52 pp.
http://www.iccwbo.org/iproadmap/

Santiago Carrizosa, Stephen B. Brush, Brian D. Wright, and Patrick E. McGuire (eds), "Accessing Biodiversity and Sharing the Benefits:Lessons from Implementing the Convention on Biological Diversity", IUCN Environmental Policy and Law Paper No. 54, World Conservation Union, 2004, 316 pp.
http://www.iucn.org/themes/law/pdfdocuments/EPLP54EN.pdf

BOOKS

Padmashree Gehl Sampath, "Regulating Bioprospecting: Institutions for Drug Research, Access and Benefit-Sharing", UNU, Tokyo, May 2005, 340 pages
http://www.unu.edu/unupress/2005/regulatingbioprospecting.html
Policy brief from the book: http://www.intech.unu.edu/publications/technology_policy/unu_pb_01_ 2005.pdf

Peter Drahos (ed), "Death of patents", Queen Mary Studies in Intellectual Property Law & Policy, Vol 11, LawText Publications, March 2005.
http://www.lawtext.com/lawtextweb/default.jsp?PageID=2
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UNCTAD-ICTSD, "Resource Book on TRIPS and Development: An authoritative and practical guide to the TRIPS Agreement", Cambridge University Press, February 2005, 846 pp.
http://www.iprsonline.org/unctadictsd/ResourceBookIndex_update.htm

ACTIONS

The Indigenous Peoples' Council on Biocolonialism is putting together a campaign page with news and actions against the National Geographic and IBM "Genographic Project".
http://www.ipcb.org/issues/human_genetics/index.html