Lamy to Meet with WTO Membership on IP Issues; Breakthrough Unlikely
IP Watch, 25 July 2009
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND: World Trade Organization Director General Pascal Lamy was expected to inform members, on Monday, 27 July 2009, that months of informal consultations on two key intellectual property issues on which a majority of governments would like a clear negotiating mandate have not yet resulted in an agreement. One of the issues is the requirement for patent applications to disclose the origin of genetic resources and/or traditional knowledge used in the application, linked to the relationship between the TRIPS Agreement and the Convention on Biological Diversity. Many disagreements seem to remain, however proponents are hopeful that high-level attention to the subject will help start progress toward resolution in the future. Read the article …
