Delegates to the WIPO Special Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Traditional Cultural Expressions resumed and concluded their last deliberations for the 2024-2025 biennium on May 30-June 5.

After one week of deliberations from March 3-7, the 50th WIPO-IGC failed to negotiate a new instrument for the protection of traditional knowledge and traditional cultural expressions. The work will continue at the 51st session in May 2025.

At resumed negotiations on TK and TCEs Texts, WIPO member states missed an opportunity to leverage the momentum created by two new treaties this year.

In Geneva: experts, diplomats and many stakeholder delegations have resumed negotiations at the WIPO Intergovernmental Committee (IGC) on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Traditional Cultural Expressions.

Over two decades of negotiations have climaxed in the birth of a new treaty in the early hours of May 24, 2024, in Geneva, Switzerland at the WIPO 2024 Diplomatic Conference on Genetic Resources and Associated Traditional Knowledge.

The WIPO Diplomatic Conference on Genetic Resources (GRs) and Associated Traditional Knowledge (ATK) is now on its second week (since May 13, 2024). We are pleased to provide an update in continuation of our first report.

The first two days of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Diplomatic Conference on Genetic Resources and Associated Traditional Knowledge kicked off on a generally positive note.

As experts and diplomats count down to the WIPO Diplomatic Conference in Geneva, in a final push to birth a treaty on Genetic Resources and Associated Traditional Knowledge, ABS Canada reflects on the anticipated outcome of the meeting.

With the WIPO Diplomatic Conference on Genetic Resources and Associated Traditional Knowledge approaching, the National Congress of American Indians is prepared to advocate for Indigenous Peoples’ rights and interests.