The WIPO IGC is tasked with the mandate to engage in text-based negotiations for the effective protection of genetic resources (GRs), traditional knowledge (TK), and traditional cultural expressions (TCEs). The need for a special international regime of protection for TK/TCEs is based on many gaps in the global intellectual property and knowledge governance order.
Read MoreIn Inclusive Trade in Africa: The Continental Free Trade Area in Comparative Perspective
David Luke and Jamie Macleod, eds.
(New York: Routledge, 2019)
Co-authored w/ Caroline Ncube, Jeremy de Beer & Tobias Schonwetter
One of the major innovations of the IGC, in its long-running search for international legal instruments for the effective protection of TK/TCEs (Traditional Knowledge / Traditional Cultural Expressions), is the idea of tiered or differentiated approaches to TK/TCEs. The essence of looking at TK/TCEs on a tiered basis is the recognition that some TK/TCE categories are diffused to some degree.
Read MoreIn Genetic Resources, Justice and Reconciliation: Canada and Global Access and Benefit Sharing
Chidi Oguamanam, ed.
(New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019)
In Genetic Resources, Justice and Reconciliation: Canada and Global Access and Benefit Sharing
Chidi Oguamanam, ed.
(New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019)
In Genetic Resources, Justice and Reconciliation: Canada and Global Access and Benefit Sharing
Chidi Oguamanam, ed.
(New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019)
Co-authored w/ Chris Koziol
In Genetic Resources, Justice and Reconciliation: Canada and Global Access and Benefit Sharing
Chidi Oguamanam, ed.
(New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019)
Co-authored w/ Frédéric Perron-Welch
In Genetic Resources, Justice and Reconciliation: Canada and Global Access and Benefit Sharing
Chidi Oguamanam, ed.
(New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019)
Co-authored w/ Roger Hunka
In Genetic Resources, Justice and Reconciliation: Canada and Global Access and Benefit Sharing
Chidi Oguamanam, ed.
(New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019)
Open AIR (African Innovation Research) Network
Working Paper No. 19 (2018)
On August 27, 2018, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore (IGC) reconvened in Geneva for its 37th session. The August 27-31 meeting is the third under the 2018-2019 biennium of the IGC and also the first opportunity for the experts to further advance negotiations on two texts for traditional knowledge (TK) and traditional cultural expressions (TCEs) under the current two-year program.
Read MoreOpen AIR (African Innovation Research) Network
Working Paper No. 14 (2018)
Co-authored w/ Tesh Dagne
CIGI Papers
No. 185 (2018)
Following recent spats between artistes and their record labels in the entertainment industry, a Professor of Intellectual Property and Innovation, University of Ottawa, Canada, Prof. Chidi Oguamanam, has advised musicians to ensure they have what he called opt-out clauses and flexible terms in their contracts with labels.
Speaking in an interview with our correspondent, he said that in every contract there should be a point indicating that the contract be revised if not working in favour of both parties.
Read MoreAfter six days of deliberations (June 24-29, 2018) to secure a mature text for the protection of genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge, delegates left the negotiations with mixed feeling while remaining resolute on the progress made. The mixed feeling arose from the decision of the United States and its ally, Japan, not to support the transmission of the resulting text of the negotiations: REV 2 to the 40th IGC as a consensus document pursuant to the ongoing mandate of the IGC for the current biennium.
Read MoreOn June 26, 2018, the long running World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore (IGC) reconvened in Geneva for its 36th session. Since 2000, the IGC has had a mandate to negotiate text-based instrument(s) for the effective protection of genetic resources, traditional knowledge and folklore (alternatively known as traditional cultural expressions).
Read MoreWorld Intellectual Property Day was April 26. The day aims to promote innovation and creativity for intellectual property (IP) as well as recognize achievements made across the globe by inventors and creators. As part of the Canada’s celebration, Navdeep Bains, Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development, launched Canada’s first IP Strategy.
Read MoreFor the 35th time in 18 years, experts have yet again gathered at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) headquarters in Geneva where they are scheduled to remain in deliberation between March 19 and 23, 2018. This meeting of the WIPO IGC is at the instance of the body’s renewed mandate for the 2018 and 2019 biennium after it failed, last year, to secure the transition of its draft texts.
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