Official policy documents authored
Public health, bioethics & access to medicines
Building Momentum for the Coherence Agenda on Global Health, WTO submission to the UN Secretary General High Level Panel on Access to Medicines, 2016
WHO, WIPO, WTO, Promoting Access to Medical Technologies and Innovation: Intersections between public health, intellectual property and trade, 2013, revised 2020
The Influenza Virus and the Patent System (commissioned by the World Health Assembly)
Intellectual Property and Bioethics: An Overview
Traditional knowledge & genetic resources
- Technical Study on Patent Disclosure Requirements related to Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge transmitted by the WIPO General Assembly to the Conference of Parties of the Convention on Biological Diversity
- Customary Law & the Intellectual Property System in the Protection of Traditional Cultural Expressions and Knowledge
- Gap analysis, describing the protection already available to TK at the international level, gaps that may exist in such protection, considerations relevant to whether or not those gaps ought to be filled, and options for filling the gaps (WIPO/GRTKF/IC/13/5(b) and previous versions)
- Outline of practical options for addressing the international dimension of protection of TK and TCEs (WIPO/GRTKF/IC/13/6, and previous versions)
- Recommendations for taking account of TK in patent search and examination (WIPO/GRTKF/IC/13/7 and previous versions)
- Surveys, reports and comparative analysis of protection of TK at national, regional and international levels (WIPO/GRTKF/IC/3/9, WIPO/GRTKF/IC/6/4).
- Draft Objectives and Principles for international protection of traditional knowledge (WIPO/GRTKF/IC/7/5, WIPO/GRTKF/IC/8/5, WIPO/GRTKF/IC/9/5, WIPO/GRTKF/IC/10/5, WIPO/GRTKF/IC/11/5(c), WIPO/GRTKF/IC/12/5(c))
National submissions to the WTO TRIPS Council
Work Programme on Electronic Commerce
- Review of the Implementation of the Agreement under article 71.1, IP/C/W/210, 3 October 2000
- Geographical Indications: Article 24.2 Review of the Application of Part II, Section 3: Some Background Issues, IP/C/W/211, 19 October 2000
- Non-violation Complaints under TRIPS, IP/C/W/212, 27 September 2000
- Electronic Commerce Work Programme, IP/C/W/233, 7 December 2000
Third party submissions on WTO disputes
- United States – Section 110(5) of US Copyright Act, WT/DS160/5, 16 April 1999
- Canada – Patent Protection of Pharmaceutical Products, WT/DS114/R, 17 March 2000