There is much current controversy over whether the rights to seeds or plant genetic
resources should be owned by the private sector or be common property. This book …

Offering the first broadly comparative analysis of place-based labeling and marketing
systems, Knowing Where It Comes From examines the way claims about the origins and …

In recent years, archaeologists and Native American communities have struggled to find
common ground even though more than a century ago a man of Seneca descent raised on …

Justice and the Convention on Biological DiversityDoris Schroeder and Thomas
PoggeBenefit sharing as envisaged by the 1992 Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) is …

The article highlights relevant issues within the global debate on geographical indications,
as they relate to food products. Geographical indications, a form of intellectual property …

Abstract Indigenous Traditional Knowledge (ITK) has been at the centre of heated debates
about patent and intellectual protection for a long time. Efforts to normatively regulate the …

The experience of the indigenous communities regarding access and benefit sharing under
the national regimes based on provisions of Convention on Biological Diversity and Bonn …

This work has been supported financially by many different funding sources, the main ones
being the 6th Framework Programme of the EU, the UCLouvain FSR funding, the Belgian …

Protecting TK through IP and preserving culture_Andanda_ forthcoming in the journal of
intellectual property r Page 1 Electronic copy available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2718887 …

Obtaining informed consent has become an essential part of modern medical practice.
Today, patients and research subjects are actively involved in medical decision-making and …