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Source:
Geneva
Green Guide on-line
http://os.grid.unep.ch/GGG/
World Intellectual Property
Organization (WIPO)
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World Intellectual Property Organization
Place des Nations
P.O. Box 18
CH-1211 Geneva 20 |
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Tel: (+41 22) 338 91 11
Fax: (+41 22) 733 54 28
Email: wipo.mail@wipo.int
Web Site: www.wipo.int
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WIPO Coordination Office at the United Nations in New York
Suite 2525, 2 United Nations Plaza,
New York, N.Y. 10017, USA
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Tel: (+1 212) 963 68 13
Fax: (+1 212) 963 48 01
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Info contact: Samar Shamoon (Public Relations)
Tel: (+41 22) 338 81 61
Email: PUBLICINF.mail@wipo.int
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Established: 1893
Staff: 980
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Director General: Kamil Idris
What is it? WIPO is dedicated to helping
to ensure that the rights of creators and owners of intellectual property
are protected worldwide and that inventors and authors are recognized and
rewarded for their ingenuity.
What does it do? Recent work has
included studies of:
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the relationship between patents and other forms of intellectual
property protection for biotechnological inventions (e.g., UPOV-style
plant variety protection, trade secrets and geographical indications);
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the moral or ethical dimensions of commercialising inventions
involving genetic alteration of plants or animals;
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the conservation and preservation of the environment; and
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the protection of animal and human health (including such issues as
biosafety, biological diversity, food security and sustainable development).
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Cooperation WIPO cooperates closely with
its two main constituencies: its member states and private sector NGOs. It
also cooperates with other UN organizations, NGOs and IGOs on appropriate
themes.
Publications
Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources - An Overview; Issues for
Proposed WIPO Work Program on Biotechnology; Essential Elements of
Intellectual Property (CD-ROM).
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