Council for Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights - The Relationship Between the TRIPS Agreement and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the Protection of Traditional Knowledge [...]mbia, Cuba, India and Pakistan
- BOLIVIA, BRAZIL, COLOMBIA, CUBA, INDIA AND PAKISTAN
- 2006/02/24
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World Trade
Organization IP/C/W/459
18 November 2005 (05-5450) Council for Trade-Related Aspects
of Intellectual Property Rights Original: English
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE TRIPS AGREEMENT AND THE
CONVENTION ON BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY (CBD) AND THE
PROTECTION OF TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE
TECHNICAL OBSERVATIONS ON the United states SUBMISSION IP/C/W449
BY BOLIVIA, BRAZIL, COLOMBIA, CUBA, INDIA AND PAKISTAN
The following communication, dated 21 October 2005, is being circulated at the request of the Delegations of Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, India and Pakistan. Colombia has been added as a cosponsor in accordance with its request dated 2 November 2005.
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General Comments on the Doha Mandate to Examine the Relationship Between the TRIPS Agreement and the CBD
Conflict between TRIPS and the CBD
The United States, in all its submissions, has argued that there is no conflict between TRIPS and the CBD. In its most recent submi