Side Event

"The Problem with Theft: Candid Conversation about Biopiracy".

Organizer
Coorganisers : Africa Centre for Biosafety, Edmonds Institute and Third World Network.

Date and Time
9 October 2007 13:15 - 14:45

Meeting
Fifth meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Access and Benefit-sharing (ABS WG 5)

While resistance from some quarters to an international ABS regime continues, misappropriation is also continuing. The panel will present recent research that calls for further investigations, and alert delegates to some cases where patent challenges coud be made on claims made on genetic resources, derivatives or uses.