Africa IP Forum 2013 - Reflections - The Presentations

Afro Leo must congratulate the DTI on making all of the presentations available online on its website here.

The presentations from the Africa IP Forum held on 26 and 27 February 2013 are as follows - click on the links:

• Bridging the knowledge gap in Africa: Role of Copyright Exceptions & Limitations
• Achieving Food Security, challenges and issues in Africa
• Benefits Of Patent Examination
• Challenges And Issues In Protecting Genetic Resources And Traditional Knowledge
• The Potential Impact of TRIPS Plus IP Enforcement Provisions on access to Medicines in Africa
• The Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Plan for Africa
• Intellectual Property: Substantive search and examination of Patents
• Crop diversity as life insurance
• Building Africa's Technological capacities: Innovation, technology transfer and IP
• The South African National Council for the Blind
• Benefits of Substantive Examination for Pharmaceutical Patent Claims
• Integrating Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) and Development Policy
• WIPO Development Agenda: What it means for Africa
• Intellectual Property and Economic Growth and Development in Africa
• Incentivizing local generic production through TRIPS Flexibilities
• Challenges & Issues: TK,GR & TCE
• Benefits of Substantive Examination of Patents versus the Depository System
• Promoting Local Production of Generic Medicines in Small African Countries
• Intellectual property and indigenous knowledge systems/traditional knowledge and genetic resources
• Damages and Injunctions in the enforcement of IPR
• Contemporary Routes of Biopiracy

For some personal reflections on the Forum, please click here, here, here and here.