E WIPO/GRTKF/IC/17/INF/13 ORIGINAL: ENGLISH DATE: OCTOBER 4, 2010 Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore Seventeenth Session Geneva, December 6 to 10, 2010 GLOSSARY OF KEY TERMS RELATED...
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E WIPO/GRTKF/IC/17/INF/13 ORIGINAL: ENGLISH DATE: OCTOBER 4, 2010 Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore Seventeenth Session Geneva, December 6 to 10, 2010 GLOSSARY OF KEY TERMS RELATED TO INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND GENETIC RESOURCES Document prepared by the Secretariat INTRODUCTION 1 At its sixteenth session, held from May 3 to 7, 2010, the Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore (‘the Committee’) decided that the Secretariat should prepare and make available for the next session of the Committee “as an information document, a glossary of key terms related to intellectual property and genetic resources”.1 2 From the very first session of the Committee, the need for terminological clarity and for adopting internationally agreed uses of relevant terms, thereby capitalizing on decades of specialized work in other international fora, was emphasized.
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