On 24 October 2003, the "WIPO-UPOV symposium on intellectual property rights in plant biotechnology" was held in Geneva, Switzerland, organised by the World Intellectual Property Organization and the International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants. Presentations from the symposium, organised in 4 sessions (namely, plant biotechnology developments in the international framework, plant biotechnology and its dissemination, intellectual property in plant biotechnology: national/regional experiences and, finally, management of intellectual property rights), are available on the web. See http://www.upov.int/en/documents/Symposium2003/index.html or contact [email protected] for more information.

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