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NCCRInternationalTrade
NCCR IP9 WORKSHOP
17th May 2006
Patentability of Life Forms
By
Michelangelo Temmerman
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Tel. +41 31 631 30 80Fax +41 31 631 36 [email protected]
Hallerstrasse 63012 Berne, Switzerlandwww.nccr-trade.orgwww.wti.org
World Trade Institute Joint Center of the Universities of Berne, Fribourg and Neuchâtel
NCCRInternationalTrade
IP9 Workshop
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Tel. +41 31 631 30 80Fax +41 31 631 36 [email protected]
Hallerstrasse 63012 Berne, Switzerlandwww.nccr-trade.orgwww.wti.org
World Trade Institute Joint Center of the Universities of Berne, Fribourg and Neuchâtel
NCCRInternationalTrade
Patenting Gene Sequences
1. Unmodified gene (nucleic) sequences: discovery or invention?
2. Patenting higher life forms (US/Europe) or their building blocks: gene sequences and cells (Canada)?
3. Role of the industrial application requirement (purpose bound protection?)
4. The inventiveness of a sequence isolated by a known process
5. Equation between gene sequences and chemical compounds
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Tel. +41 31 631 30 80Fax +41 31 631 36 [email protected]
Hallerstrasse 63012 Berne, Switzerlandwww.nccr-trade.orgwww.wti.org
World Trade Institute Joint Center of the Universities of Berne, Fribourg and Neuchâtel
NCCRInternationalTrade
Dual Protection UPOV/Patents
1. Excluding plant varieties from patentability (Europe) or allowing dual protection (US/Australia)?
2. Is the European approach efficiently excluding varieties? (loopholes?)
3. Is the UPOV system still needed?4. What about the exclusion of animal
breeds?
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Tel. +41 31 631 30 80Fax +41 31 631 36 [email protected]
Hallerstrasse 63012 Berne, Switzerlandwww.nccr-trade.orgwww.wti.org
World Trade Institute Joint Center of the Universities of Berne, Fribourg and Neuchâtel
NCCRInternationalTrade
Need for International Harmonization
• International patent law harmonization: pros & cons
• Should we leave the sensitive area of biotechnology up to regional/national authorities?
• Special treatment for developing countries?
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Tel. +41 31 631 30 80Fax +41 31 631 36 [email protected]
Hallerstrasse 63012 Berne, Switzerlandwww.nccr-trade.orgwww.wti.org
World Trade Institute Joint Center of the Universities of Berne, Fribourg and Neuchâtel
NCCRInternationalTrade
Ordre Public and Morality in the Patent Office
• Is the patent office the right place to deal with those concepts? (taking into account its limited role in the regulatory framework and its practical limitations to assess risks)
• Concept of ordre public (generally and for biotechnology in specific)
• Concept of morality (generally and for biotechnology in specific)
• Human rights