Patents & Biopiracy: all materials

Legislation in US Congress Proposes to Privatize the US Patent and Trademark Office
14 Jan 1997
Enclosures of the Mind: Intellectual Monopolies
A Resource Kit on Community Knowledge, Biodiversity, and Intellectual Property Rights 31 Dec 1996
1996 Biopiracy Update
Bolivian Quinoa Claimed in US Patents 29 Dec 1996
The Parts of Life-an issue of Development Dialogue, 1996
14 Dec 1996
US Government Dumps the Hagahai Patent
Official Notice to Coincide with Human Rights Day 14 Dec 1996
Pharmaceutical Companies Bid for Northern Botanical Garden Collections in Attempt to Avoid the Biodiversity Convention
Cotton "Failing in the Field" 31 Jul 1996
New Questions About Management and Exchange of Human Tissue at NIH / Indigenous Person's Cells Patented
31 Mar 1996
Bioprospecting/Biopiracy and Indigenous Peoples
Bio-Prospectors Hall of Shame...or Guess Who's Coming to Pirate Your Plants?! Pros and Cons of Bilateral Bioprospecting Agreements 26 Dec 1995
Sixty-Five Years of the U.S. Plant Patent Act (PPA)
Has the PPA Benefitted Society? The PPA's Relevance for the South. 30 Nov 1995
Biopiracy Update: A Global Pandemic
Cases from Thailand, Gabon, Ecuador, and Peru 30 Sep 1995
Utility Plant Patents: A Review of the U.S. Experience (1985 - July, 1995)
Staking Ever-Broader Claims on Entire Species and Important Traits; Implications for the South 31 Jul 1995
Gene Hunters in Search of "Disease Genes" Collect Human DNA from Remote Island Populations
Indigenous Peoples Assert their Intellectual Integrity; Call for Life forms Patent-Free Zone in the Pacific; Life Forms Patent Update 31 May 1995
Microbial Genetic Resources
Industrial Patents on Microbes from the South; Deposits in the ATCC 31 Jan 1995
Volume 1, #5 RAFI Challenges W.R. Grace (Agracetus) "Species Patent" on Soybeans at European Patent Office
29 Dec 1994
Volume 1, #4 Pirating Medicinal Plants:
COPs... and Robbers... Transfer-Sourcing Indigenous Knowledge (with Indigenous Peoples' Biodiversity Network) 29 Nov 1994

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