IPRs and sustainable development
The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD) have being implementing the Capacity Building Project on Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) and Sustainable Development. The project`s aim is to improve the understanding of TRIPS-related issues among developing countries and to assist them in building their capacity for ongoing as well as future negotiations on IPRs. A series of documents from the project are now available, some directly or indirectly relevant to biotechnology. They include the "Resource book on TRIPS and development" (providing a practical guide to the WTOs agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS)), a policy discussion paper and, finally, a number of publications (currently 13) comprising both case studies and "research tools". See
http://www.iprsonline.org/unctadictsd/description.htm or contact
[email protected] for more information.
