Poor management of intellectual property rights and the system of intellectual property rights itself hinder equal research partnerships between the South and the North, and often result in an over-cautious or one-sided Northern investment policy and unnecessary delays in the realization of some of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
Formatted Contents Note
I. Trade vs. development: the international intellectual property rights regime and the UN millennium development goals, an introduction to the problems with international IPR obligations in the light of development priorities in sub-saharan Africa; II. Agricultural seeds that reduce hunger and poverty policies, perceptions and practices intellectual property rights; III. Affordable HIV drug resistance test for Africa (Art-A) intellectual property; IV. Synthesis, concluding remarks and recommendations.
Published
Nijmegen, The Netherlands : Wolf Legal Publishers, 2011.