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IP9 Workshop "Prior Informed Consent" Print

"Human Rights in the Patent Procedure: The Issue of Prior Informed Consent of Human Donors"

28 March 2007, World Trade Institute-Hallestrasse 6-3012 Berne-Auditorium Anna Nussbaum-13.30

Registration (free):

Speakers: Prof. Dr. Denis Monard (Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research); Jerzy Koopman (University of Utrecht); Anthony Taubman (WIPO); Markus Schefer (University of Basel); François Meienberg (Declaration of Berne); Michelangelo Temmerman (World Trade Insitute)

Download the program: Workshop PIC - 28 March 2007- WTI.pdf

Presentations

Denis Monard: Identification of new targets through analysis of human genetic material and steps to steps to patentable inventions.pdf

François Meienberg: Access to Human Genetic Resources Results from a Transnational Stakeholder Dialogue.ppt

Jerzy Koopman: PIC On the asymmetries between international legal regimes.pdf

Anthony Taubman: Prior informed consent to patent applications by donors of human genetic material.ppt

Michelangelo Temmerman: Prior Informed Consent in European Patent Law Overview and Options.ppt 

Some interesting links (kindly provided by François Meienberg):

Stakeholder dialogue process on access to human genetic resources, sponsored by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development: http://skylla.wz-berlin.de/pdf/2003/iv03-107.pdf

Human Genome Diversity Project, Model of an Ethical Protocol for Collecting DNA-Samples:
http://www.stanford.edu/group/morrinst/hgdp/protocol.html

Opposition against the Genographic Project of the National Geographic Society: http://www.ipcb.org/issues/human_genetics/index.html

"Hands off our Genes, say Pacific Islanders":
http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/2007/1872885.htm




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