Symposium on Public Policy Patent Landscaping in the Life Sciences: Provisional Program

Sunday, April 6, 2008
15.00 – 18.00	Technical review of patent landscapes on plant genetic resources for food and agriculture.

Day 1: Peer Review of WIPO-FAO Patent Search Project on PGRFA

Monday, April 7, 2008
09.00 – 09.15	Seminar registration
Session 1: Setting the Scene
09.15 – 09.30	Introduction Mr. Antony Taubman, Acting Director and Head, Global IP Issues Division, WIPO Mr. Shakeel Bhatti, Executive Secretary, International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (FAO)
09.30 – 09.50	Recent developments in WIPO’s patent information services and tools for patent analysis and landscaping Mr. William Meredith, Head, Patent Information and IP Statistics Service [PDF]
09.50 – 10.15	Current issues in patent information for public policymakers in the life sciences: the lessons from patents relating to plant genetic resources Mr. Antony Taubman [PDF]
10.15 - 10.45	Coffee break
Session 2: Plant Genetic Resources: WIPO-FAO Patent Search Project on PGRFA
Patenting trends in relation to plant genetic resources for food and agriculture: landscapes on gene promoters for rice, maize, potato and soybean landscape of the rice genome
10.45 – 13.00	Introduction and panel discussion Mr. Antony Taubman Mr. Shakeel Bhatti Ms. Kerry Fluhr, IP Analyst, Cambia, Australia [PDF] Ms. Maria Jose Amstalden Sampaio, Policy and Governmental Affairs Officer, EMBRAPA Mr. Kyle Jensen, Public Intellectual Property Resource for Agriculture (PIPRA) [PDF]
13.00 – 14.00	Lunch
14.00 – 15-15	Commentary: review of methodology, limitations, lessons for policymakers Mr. Thomas Cottier, World Trade Institute Ms. Muriel Lightbourne, Visiting Scholar,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign [PDF]
15.15 – 15.30	Coffee break
12.00 – 12.30	Discussion
Session 3: Patent Landscaping for Plant Genetic Resource Policymakers Lessons, Tools and Methodologies
15.30 – 16.30	Matching patent information, patent analysis tools and methodologies with the policy agenda in plant genetic resources - Options for improved information services for policymakers - Patterns in use of plant genetic resources - Monitoring accessions of plant genetic resources Ms. Victoria Henson-Apollonio, Central Advisory Service on Intellectual Property - CAS-IP, CGIAR Mr. Pierre Roger, IP Manager, Limagrain [PDF]

Day 2: Life Sciences Public Policy Landscaping

Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Session 4: Health-Related Patent Landscaping
09.30 - 10.30	The public health policy context: patent information needs, current policy concerns and patent landscaping initiatives Ms. Precious Matsoso, Director, Department of Technical Cooperation for Essential Medicines, Drugs and Traditional Medicines, WHO [PDF] Mr. Fred Abbott, Professor of International Law, Florida State University College of Law [PDF] Ms. Pascale Boulet, Legal Adviser, Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines, Médecins Sans Frontiers (MSF) [PDF]
10.30 – 11.00	Coffee break
11.00 - 12.00	Review of landscaping initiatives: - Patenting trends in relation to neglected diseases: Tuberculosis, African sleeping sickness, rabies, African river blindness, leprosy, AIDS, leishmaniasis Mr. Raj Hirwani, Unit for Research and Development of Information Products (URDIP), India - Patent landscape on avian flu Mr. Ben Prickril, PIIPA [PDF]
12.00 - 13.00	Commentary: review of methodology, limitations, lessons for policymakers Ms. Corrina Moucheraud Vickery, Program Coordinator, Program on Global Health and Technology Access Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy Duke University Mr. Edward Hammond, Consultant, Third World Network
13.00 – 14.00	Lunch
14.00 – 15.30	Commentary: review of methodology, limitations, lessons for policymakers Mr. Martin Friede, Initiative for Vaccine Research, Product Research, and Development, Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals, WHO [PDF] Mr. Tahir Amin, Harvard Medical School
15.30 – 16.00	Coffee break
16.00 - 16.30	Patent information and the multilateral environment agreements Mr. Antony Taubman Mr. Paul Oldham, ESRC Centre for Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics [PDF]
Session 5: Concluding Panel Discussion: Future Pathways for Cooperation
16.30 – 17.30	Perspectives on patent landscaping in the life sciences Search methodologies Tools to make information more accessible Use of patent information Policy impact Freedom to operate analyses
17.30 – 18.00	Discussion