14th session of WIPO’s Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore
29 June – 3 July 2009 (Geneva, Switzerland)

The decisions of WIPO IGC-14 have been made available online. In an article published in Bridges Weekly Trade News Digest, the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development notes that the IGC reached an impasse on TK protection, putting its future in jeopardy. Without agreement on its future work, the IGC has left its fate in the General Assemblies’ hands, and it is unclear how the General Assemblies will proceed. Download the meeting’s decisions … Read the ICTSD article …