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The Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD) is helping to define what a Development Agenda for Intellectual Property might look like. An important part of success in development will depend on closing the healthcare, knowledge and technology gaps between rich and poor countries, and the Intellectual Property Regime will impact how countries will approach development policy.  |
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| Intellectual Property Task Force meeting 2009 |
| Event: at the Brooks World Poverty Institute at the University of Manchester: Jun 22, 2009 - Jun 23, 2009 |
| Our group of intellectual property scholars presented and discussed papers for inclusion in IPD's forthcoming volume on IPRs and Development. Click above to see papers and presentations. |
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| Intellectual Property and Development: Task Force Meeting |
| Event: December 2005: Dec 05, 2005 - Dec 06, 2005 |
In the ten years since the WTO's Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) introduced intellectual property rules into the multilateral trading system, the poorest people of the world have been denied access to life saving drugs, corporations from the advanced industrial countries have attempted to patent native medicines and plants, and the scientific community has complained that IPR impedes the progress of science. In 2004, WIPO took a major step forward in addressing these issues when it adopted a Brazilian and Argentine proposal for a development agenda.
That policymakers are now questioning the implications of intellectual property rules on the human and economic development of poorer countries presents an enormous opportunity. There is a real need to create an academic and non-ideological discussion and literature on intellectual property so that participants in the global debate can proceed with the best possible information. IPD has established a new task force on intellectual property to fill this space and to help inform the international community in what is already a contentious and enormously important dialogue. In conjunction with the Economic Commission for Latin America and Development (ECLAC), IPD convened its first formal taskforce meeting in Santiago, Chile from December 5th - 7th. |
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| New Approaches to Intellectual Property |
| Event: Jun 13, 2005 - Jun 14, 2005 |
There is increasing concern about the formulation of intellectual property regimes that best serve the public, especially in developing countries. Defenders of stronger intellectual property rights for industries such as pharmaceuticals and software, contend that all will benefit, yet many others believe stronger property rights will stifle efforts to bridge the technology gap or fight infectious disease in developing countries.
Recognizing that these issues are of vital concern to the entire world, the TransAtlantic Consumer Dialogue and the Initiative for Policy Dialogue jointly held a two-day meeting on June 13 and 14, 2005, at Columbia University to marshal historical, theoretical, and political analysis on these matters. |
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