INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND GENETIC RESOURCES – IN SUPPORT OF INNOVATION

31st May 2018
by secretary

Agrinatura News

Advanced International Training Programme

The programme focuses on training and supporting to strengthen, adapt and maintain capacity in participating organisations to define and achieve short- as well as long-term goals. The participants will use the latest developments in their areas of work, supervised by skilled colleagues and experts; they will develop a network of colleagues from other countries among themselves and be able to uniquely network with diverse stakeholders of genetic resources, including users, researchers, policy makers and international institutions working on genetic resources and intellectual property.

Further details here at SIANI website

Contents

Intellectual property (IP) in the field of genetic resources in agriculture and other sectors

IP:s importance in trade and innovation
IP rights: patents, plant breeders rights, trademarks, geographical indications, copyright, trade secrets etc.
Traditional knowledge: regional and national experiences

International IP framework: TRIPS, UPOV and WIPO

National implementation, options and flexibilities

Access and benefit-sharing (ABS):

Convention on Biological Diversity, including the Nagoya Protocol and Cartagena Protocol Mutually agreed terms, prior informed consent, compliance, traditional knowledge
International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture Standard Material Transfer Agreement, farmers’ rights, Multilateral System of ABS, Global Information System on Plant Genetic Resources
WHO Pandemic Influenza Preparedness (PIP) Framework
National implementation, options and flexibilities

Seed systems: formal and informal
Institutional development and good governance
Agricultural innovation, commercialisation and rural development
Access and dissemination of knowledge
Building awareness of Intellectual Property

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