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WIPO-IGC 45: Bold and Strategic Moves Toward TK and TCE Text(s)
WIPO-IGC 45: Bold and Strategic Moves Toward TK and TCE Text(s)

Buoyed by the July 2022 WIPO 62nd General Assembly decision that endorsed a Diplomatic Conference on Genetic Resources (GR) and Associated Traditional Knowledge, delegates to the 45th Intergovernmental Committee (IGC) continued negotiations on the TK and TCEs texts. On December 5-9, 2022, negotiations on the two subject matters continued from the September 12-16, 2022 44th IGC. It is second of the series of negotiations to focus on TK/TCEs. At the 44th IGC, delegates took unofficial notice of the new Chair’s, Ms. Lillyclair Bellamy (Jamaica), determination to take a cue from the immediate past Chair, Ian Goss (Australia) to generate a Chair’s TK/TCE text to advance progress on TK/TCE negotiations. This decision, which did not come as surprise to delegates, has potential to replicate Goss’ experience of the Chair’s GR text based on which the 2024 Diplomatic Conference is being convened.

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Blog PostChidi OguamanamGenetic Resources, Research Ethics, Traditional Knowledge, access and benefit sharing, IP and Knowledge Governance, IGC 43, WIPO, United Nations, Ukraine, Geneva
WIPO-IGC 43: Logjam Over Two Genetic Resources Texts
WIPO-IGC 43: Logjam Over Two Genetic Resources Texts

May 30-June 3, 2022: Delegates met in-person and virtually at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Geneva to resume the second round of negotiations for the 2022-23 biennium of the WIPO Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore (WIPO-IGC). The meeting being the second in the ‘post-pandemic’ era was dedicated to negotiations on genetic resources. It was the last meeting on the subject under the 2022-2023 biennium. The remaining meetings of the Committee for the biennium are dedicated to Traditional Knowledge and Traditional Cultural Expressions (aka folklore).

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Blog PostChidi OguamanamGenetic Resources, Research Ethics, Traditional Knowledge, Research Funding, access and benefit sharing, IP and Knowledge Governance, IGC 43, WIPO, United Nations, Ukraine, Geneva