An International Conference on Intellectual Property Law
 will be held at the UBC Faculty of Law in Vancouver, BC, Canada,
September 19-20, 2003
"Intellectual Property and Biotechnology
in the Age of Globalization: Challenges, Opportunities and Risks."
Overhead view of Ubc Campus
Presented By:
The University of British Columbia Faculty of Law
and
Osgoode Hall Law School at York University
Join leading intellectual property practitioners, legal scholars and academics, jurists, social scientists, representatives of national and international organizations, representatives from non-governmental organizations, indigenous communities, and the private business sector, as they gather at the University of British Columbia Faculty of law, to discuss:
  1. The challenges posed by new technologies to traditional paradigms of intellectual property law,
  2. The protection of marginalized forms of knowledge such as indigenous peoples' knowledge,
  3. The environmental implications of intellectual property law, especially products of biotechnology,
  4. The role of intellectual property systems in the industrializing world,
  5. The attitudes of the judiciary to biotechnology.
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