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Fighting against biopiracy : does the obligation to disclose in patent applications truly help ?
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de Werra, Jacques
Published in Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law. 2009, vol. 42, no. 1, p. 143-179
Abstract In the global fight against biopiracy, one of the key issues is to prevent the grant and exploitation of patents on traditional knowledge and genetic resources by requiring that patent applicants for inventions involving traditional knowledge and genetic resources disclose the source of those resources and provide evidence that the prior informed consent of the local owners of such resources has been obtained and that benefit-sharing agreements have been entered into with those owners. This Article argues that a legal discussion of biopiracy should analyze the obligation to disclose the use of traditional knowledge and genetic resources in an invention beyond the sanctions that are attached in case of violation of such obligations as previously discussed at the international level.
Keywords Biopiracy — Patent law — Genetics — Droit de la propriété intellectuelle
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Faculté de droit / Département de droit commercial
Faculté de droit / Département de droit civil
Faculté de droit / Centre du droit de l'art
Research group Droit - Propriété intellectuelle
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(ISO format) 		DE WERRA, Jacques. Fighting against biopiracy : does the obligation to disclose in patent applications truly help ?. In: Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, 2009, vol. 42, n° 1, p. 143-179. https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:1480

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