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You want to patent life?
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Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
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Details have emerged of the position of African countries on the proposed ADPIC agreement on aspects of intellectual property rights, which should have been debated at the meeting of the World Trade Organisation in Seattle in December 1999. They emphasise that 'living plants, animals and micro-organisms and their by-products should not be patented, and neither should the natural processes which create them.' The African group also requested that legislation on the protection of plant varieties should protect the rights of indigenous farmers and communities, under the UN convention. This was backed by several Asian and Latin American countries, as well as UNDP and the Third World Academy of Sciences. Third World Network 228 Macalister Road, 10400 Penang, Malaysia Fax: + 60 4 226 45 05 Email: twnet@po.jaring.my Website: www.twnside.org.sg/ Details have emerged of the position of African countries on the proposed ADPIC agreement on aspects of intellectual property rights, which should have been debated at the meeting of the World Trade Organisation in Seattle in December 1999. They... |
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2014-10-16T09:07:32Z
2014-10-16T09:07:32Z 2000 |
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News Item
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CTA. 2000. You want to patent life?. Spore 85. CTA, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
1011-0054 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/46668 |
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en
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Spore;85
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CTA
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Spore
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