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A Patent Indicator for Access to Genetic Resources and Benefit-Sharing: The Role of Patent Databases and Web 2.0 ICT Tools in an ABS regime (NOTE EVENT COMBINED WITH TWN IN ROOM IX)

Organizer
ESRC Centre for Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics (Cesagen), Lancaster University, UK

Date and Time
4 April 2009 18:15 - 19:45

Meeting
Seventh meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Access and Benefit-sharing (WGABS 7)

This event provides an overview of recent work with the World Patent Statistical Database to create a European indicator for patent activity for biodiversity and traditional knowledge. The side event considers issues relating to definition, country level trends, sectoral trends, disclosure of origin and emerging efforts to link patent data to economic indicators on the country and company level. The session concludes by considering the role of open source Web 2.0 ICT tools in monitoring ABS arrangements and introduces the open source Research Desktop to link biodiversity and patent data. Those interested in the event may wish to visit http://www.researchdesktop.org to explore the beta version of the desktop.