10:15 - 10:40

Trade, Knowledge and Intellectual Property Rights Introduction, by Ricardo Meléndez-Ortiz (ICTSD).

The IPR chapter of the FTAA - Outlining the development perspective (click)

Coordinators: Quakers International Affairs Programme (QIAP) and International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD). Tasmin Rajotte and David Vivas-Eugui.

Moderator: Tasmin Rajotte, Programme Associate, QIAP

Programme:

The IPR chapter of the FTAA and the Brazilian view under the "Three Track approach" by Elza Moreira Marcelino de Castro, Head of the Intellectual Property Division and National Coordinator for the FTAA Negotiating Group on Intellectual Property Rights, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Brazil

Regional and Bilateral Agreements and a TRIPS-plus World: the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) by David Vivas-Eugui, Programme Manager, Intellectual Property, Technology and Services, ICTSD

Rapporteur: Tasmin Rajotte, Programme Associate, QIAP

Trading away health in the FTAA (click)

Coordinators: Médecins sans Frontières (MSF-DWB). Kate Evans and Rachel Cohen.

Moderator: Rachel M. Cohen, US Director of the Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines, MSF

Programme:

Portraits of the Access Crisis

Dr. Luis Villa, Head of Mission, MSF, Guatemala,

El Alca y el Acceso a Medicamentos para las Personas que Viven con VIHSIDA (click) by Guillermo Murillo, Agua Buena Human Rights Association, Costa Rica

Reneging on Doha: Intellectual Property and Access to Medicines

Enhanced Intellectual Property Protections in International Trade Agreements and the Threat to Public Health (click) by Rob Weissman, Co-Director, Essential Action, USA,

Elza Moreira Marcelino de Castro, Head of the Intellectual Property Division and National Coordinator for the FTAA Negotiating Group on Intellectual Property Rights, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Brazil,

and Cailin Morrison, Legal Advisor, Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines, MSF, USA

Rapporteur: Kate Evans, Program Associate, Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines, MSF

Agriculture, food and IPRs in the FTAA (click)

Coordinators: The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) and the Centre for International Environmental Law (CIEL). Maria Julia Oliva, CIEL.

Programme:

Biotechnology, Biosafety, and Food and Agriculture by Kristen Dawkins, Analyst, IATP

Food, Agriculture, and the Intellectual Property Provisions of the FTAA (click) by Maria Julia Oliva, Staff Attorney, team leader of the Project on Intellectual Property, CIEL.

El Tratado Internacional de Recursos Fito-Genéticos para la Alimentación y la Agricultura - FAO - y los DPI by Ricardo Torres, Instituto de Investigación de Biodiversidad Alexander von Humboldt, Colombia.

Rapporteur: Kristen Dawkins, Analyst, IATP

Finding synergies in the FTAA between the Convention of Biological Diversity and IPRs (Joint session with the trade and environment tent) (click)

Coordinators: The World Conservation Union (IUCN) and Centro Ecuatoriano de Derecho Ambiental (CEDA). Sebastian Winkler, IUCN.

Moderator: Sebastian Winkler, Senior Policy Officer, IUCN

Programme:

The Relationship Between the CBD and IPR in the Light of the FTAA Process (click) by Jorge Cabrera Medaglia, Universidad de Costa Rica, Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad -INBio.

CBD, Access to Genetic Resources, and Traditional Knowledge and IPRs (click) by Monica Rosell, Legal Adviser, Andean Community Secretariat

Implications and Conclusions for the FTAA by Kristen Dawkins, Analyst, IATP

Rapporteur: Charlie Capp, CEDA/TULC

Access to Information and the Copyright and Related Rights Provisions in the Proposed FTAA (click)

Coordinator: Consumer Project on Technology (CPTech), James P. Love, Director.

Moderator: Manon Ress, Research Associate, CPTech

Programme:

James P. Love, Director, CPTech

Opening Markets or Closing Options: Technological Protection Measures in the FTAA by Gwen Hinze, Staff Attorney, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).
Other documents: Technical Protection Measures in the Draft FTAA (click), Getting the Balance Right: Seven Lessons from a Comparison of the Technological Protection Measure Provisions of the FTAA, the DMCA, and the U.S.-Singapore and U.S.-Chile Free Trade Agreements (click) and Unintended Consequences: Five Years Under the DMCA by EFF.

Copyright and the FTAA: An Un-American Perspective (click) by Howard Knopf, Lawyer, Macera & Jarzyna/Moffat & Co. In PDF (click).

Rapporteur: Manon Ress, Research Associate, CPTech

Rules and Systemic Issues: Non violation - Dispute Settlement issues in IPRs, and technology transfer (click)

Coordinators: UNCTAD-ICTSD project on IPRs and the Centre for International Environmental Law (CIEL). David Vivas-Eugui, ICTSD.

Moderator: David Vivas-Eugui, Programme Manager, Intellectual Property, Technology and Services, ICTSD

Programme:

Non-Violation Complaints and Intellectual Property in the FTAA (click) by Maria Julia Oliva, Staff Attorney, Team Leader of the Project on Intellectual Property, CIEL.

Technology transfer under the FTAA by Assad Omer, Economic Affairs Officer, UNCTAD

Rapporteur: Maria Julia Oliva, Staff Attorney, Team Leader of the Project on Intellectual Property, CIEL

Plenary for discussion

All participants

Facilitator: David Vivas-Eugui, Programme Manager, Intellectual Property, Technology and Services, ICTSD