Research Paper 9, January 2007
A Development Analysis of the proposed WIPO Treaty on the Protection of Broadcasting & Cablecasting. Since 1998, Member States of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) have discussed...
View ArticlePolicy Brief 6, March 2007
Development and Intellectual Property under the EPA Negotiations. The negotiations for Economic Partnership Agreements (EPA) between the European Union (EU) and the African Caribbean and Pacific...
View ArticlePolicy Brief 9, August 2007
The Threat of Technological Protection Measures to a Development-Oriented Information Society. The new digital environment offers both opportunities and challenges for developing countries. New...
View ArticleResearch Paper 13, August 2007
Towards a Digital Agenda for Developing Countries. The last two decades of the 20th century saw a revolution in the nature of information and the way that it can be created, used and transmitted. Vast...
View ArticleResearch Paper 36, March 2011
The Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing of Genetic Resources: Analysis and Implementation Options for Developing Countries. As is common knowledge, the Nagoya Protocol was rushed through in...
View ArticleResearch Paper 41, September 2011
Pharmaceutical Innovation, Incremental Patenting and Compulsory Licensing. Despite the decline in the discovery of new chemical entities for pharmaceutical use, there is a significant proliferation of...
View ArticleResearch Paper 52, August 2014
Tackling the Proliferation of Patents: How to Avoid Undue Limitations to Competition and the Public Domain The steady increase in patent applications and grants that is taking place in developed and...
View ArticleStatement, 13-17 October 2014
South Centre Statement on Coming into Force of Nagoya Protocol The following is a Statement by the South Centre on the coming into force of the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the...
View ArticleResearch Paper 56, November 2014
The African Regional Intellectual Property Organization (ARIPO) Protocol on Patents: Implications for Access to Medicines This paper was commissioned to better understand the workings of the African...
View ArticlePolicy Brief 17, March 2015
Towards a More Coherent International Legal System on Farmers’ Rights: The Relationship of the FAO ITPGRFA, UPOV and WIPO This Policy Brief outlines some key areas of interrelation among the...
View ArticlePolicy Brief 29, September 2016
Tackling Antimicrobial Resistance: Challenges for Developing Countries On 21 September 2016, a High Level Meeting was held on antimicrobial resistance at the sides of the United Nations General...
View ArticleStatement, October 2016
South Centre Statement to the WIPO Assemblies 2016 The statement highlights that the greatest challenge for developing countries and LDCs in the area of intellectual property (IP) is the proliferation...
View ArticlePolicy Brief 33, December 2016
Outcome of the Assemblies of the Member States of the World Intellectual Property Organization 2016 The fifty-sixth series of meetings of the Assemblies of the Member States of the World Intellectual...
View ArticleSC Side Event to the CBD COP 13 and Nagoya COP MOP 2, 15 December 2016
Title: Taking Stock of Global Developments on ABS and Intellectual Property Date: 15 December 2016, 18:15 Venue: Youth Group Meeting Room, Sunrise Building, Second...
View ArticleResearch Paper 75, March 2017
Implementing Farmers’ Rights Relating to Seeds The concept of Farmers’ Rights recognized the role of farmers as custodians of biodiversity and helped to draw attention to the need to preserve practices...
View ArticlePolicy Brief 40, June 2017
Outcomes of the Nineteenth Session of the WIPO Committee on Development and Intellectual Property: A Critical Reflection Despite the high relevance of the issues discussed in the agenda of the WIPO...
View ArticleSC Submission on CESCR Draft General Comment, February 2020
Comments by the South Centre on the CESCR Draft General Comment on science and economic, social and cultural rights Art. 15: 15.1.b, 15.2, 15.3 and 15.4 The South Centre welcomes the opportunity to...
View ArticleStatement, November 2020
South Centre Statement for the Third Session of the WIPO Conversation on AI and IP The South Centre is an intergovernmental organization of 54 developing countries working across various policy areas,...
View ArticleSouthViews No. 212, 28 January 2021
The Right to Development and its Role in International Economic Law By Olasupo Owoeye This paper provides a brief discussion on the right to development and examines some of the criticisms often raised...
View ArticleResearch Paper 131, June 2021
TRIPS Flexibilities and TRIPS-plus Provisions in the RCEP Chapter on Intellectual Property: How Much Policy Space is Retained? By Vitor Henrique Pinto Ido The Regional Comprehensive Economic...
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