Side Event

Intellectual property and genetic resources: an update on the WIPO IGC negotiations.

Organizer
World Intellectual Property Organization

Date and Time
26 February 2014 13:15 - 14:45

Meeting
Third meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Intergovernmental Committee for the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-sharing

The Secretariat of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) will update participants on the text-based negotiations underway in the Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore (IGC) - in particular the renewed IGC mandate for the 2014-2015 biennium and the last session of the IGC which focused on genetic resources.