Climate Technology Centre and Network… Revisiting the Climate Change, Technology Transfer and IP Debate (Part II): What did we learn from COVID? 6 Nov 202411 Nov 2024 In 2021, intellectual property again became an issue in international discussions on access to COVID19 vaccines. As with the debate over access to HIV medications in the early 2000’s, the…
Africa… Taking Customary Law Seriously (Part III): The Story of Oko Mmapule Tadesse 1 Nov 20241 Nov 2024 One of the things that I have found really useful as a scholar AND as a teacher is the power of story and narrative. For my current project, I wrote…
Africa… Taking Customary Law Seriously(Part II): Better than a sui generis system? 24 Oct 202422 Oct 2024 In this piece I am working on I make a proposal for how to implement the recognition of customary law as a means of providing protection for Traditional Knowledge[1] (TK)…
Emerging Economies… Revisiting the Climate Change, Technology Transfer and IP Debate: Part I 21 Oct 202422 Oct 2024 One of my current projects is one on revisiting the debate on climate change, technology transfer and intellectual property. By 2014, in international climate change negotiations, a consensus had built…
Traditional Cultural Expressions… Taking Customary Law Seriously: Domestic Recognition of Traditional Knowledge (Part I) 16 Oct 2024 I’m really excited about this paper that I am working on I’ll be presenting a draft of this paper at IP Mosaic on November 1st and 2nd at Marquette University. …
Emerging Economies… Going Green: Navigating Intellectual Property Law in Times of Global Challenges and Sustainability Transitions 14 Oct 202411 Oct 2024 ASIL Panel Presentation - https://www.youtube.com/live/ZsXyRu5nvCM On September 27, 2024 I was on a panel discussion on the evolving role of intellectual property law in fostering innovation, diffusion, and the transfer…
Access to Medicines… Here Again?! – The WTO COVID19 Waiver Ministerial Decision- June 2022 17 Jun 202217 Jun 2022 In a previous piece in the Conversation and on this Blog I predicted that the final outcome of the negotiations on the TRIPS Waiver would end up with a solution…
Copyright… Video recording of GWU IP Speaker Series, February 22, 2022 24 Feb 202221 Apr 2022 On February 22, 2022 I visited GWU Law School to present on my article “Do We Need Exit Rules for Traditional Knowledge? Lessons from Solomon Linda, and the Mbube/‘The Lion Sleeps Tonight’…
Copyright… New Forthcoming Article on Solomon Linda and “Mbube/The Lion Sleeps Tonight” 1 Feb 2022 I've got an article coming out later this year on titled: “Do we need Exit rules for Traditional Knowledge? Lessons from Solomon Linda, and the Mbube/‘The Lion Sleeps Tonight’ case”…
Access to Medicines… Interview on my Scholarship with Dean Andrew Strauss 29 Jan 2022 Dean Andrew Strauss interviewed me for his podcast On the Witness Stand, about my scholarship on IP and traditional knowledge and IP and climate change and how I ended up…
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