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Tough IP Health Provisions In Europeâs Colombia/Peru Trade Deal
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| Aside from pharmaceutical patents, the other
| key IP provision in the free trade agreement
| relates to geographical indications (GIs).
| These allow certain regions to claim an
| effective monopoly right on delicacies such
| as Champagne or Parma ham that are
| synonymous with them. According to Brussels
| sources, over 200 GIs will be covered by the
| agreement with Peru and Colombia.
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http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/2010/02/25/tough-ip-health-provisions-in-europes-colombiaperu-trade-deal/
It's The Execution That Matters, Not The Idea
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| There have been lots of players who have
| come and gone, and there are at least a
| dozen players in the space today. And it's
| not because they all "took" the idea from
| this guy, but because lots of people
| recognized that it's an idea that makes
| sense. Kickstarter is certainly getting a
| ton of press these days, but that's mostly
| because of some top notch execution on its
| part.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100202/0325368007.shtml
Have we seen Peak Monsanto?
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| Is it possible that we've reached Peak
| Monsanto?:
|
| Low commodity soybean prices, attractive
| premiums, and rising prices for genetically
| modified soybean seed are leading American
| farmers to plant more acres of non-GMO
| soybeans this year.
|
| Representatives with soybean associations,
| universities, and grain buyers all say that
| demand for non-GMO soybeans is growing,
| leading to more non-GMO acres.
|
| Genetically modified Roundup Ready soybeans
| have taken an increasingly larger percentage
| of U.S. soybean acreage each year since
| their introduction in 1996, reaching 92
| percent in 2008.
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http://gmwatch.org/latest-listing/1-news-items/11981-peak-monsanto
Recent:
Child malnutrition center of legal battle
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| Mike Mellace only has to look at his 4-
| year-old son Ammanuel, brought home from an
| Ethiopian orphanage a year ago, to know
| what it means to save a child from
| malnutrition.
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http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/jan/16/child-malnutrition-center-legal-battle/
Related:
How Sick Are Patents? Ask Indonesia
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| Got that? Indonesia releases the sequences, and the US CDC does indeed patent
| that information, a situation which could then force Indonesia to pay for
| vaccines based on its own sequence data to protect its citizens. This
| probably means that fewer vaccines will be bought, more people will die, more
| mutations in the flu virus, and more deaths globally. So how, exactly, is
| this particular intellectual monopoly good for the world?
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2008/08/how-sick-are-patents-ask-indonesia.html
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