[clug] Soothing the Naysayers: Patents and the Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement

[Rusty Russell]

Soothing the Naysayers: Patents and the Australia-United States Free
Trade Agreement

Charles Lawson, Research Fellow, Griffith University

5.30-7.00pm, Thursday, 1 July 2004
Staff Library, Faculty of Law, Fellows Rd, The Australian National
University, Canberra 

RSVP to acipa at law.anu.edu.au or phone 02 6125 3488

The recently concluded Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement
includes provisions dealing with patents. Some of these measures may
entrench more than the minimum standards required by the Agreement on
Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs). An
approach to assessing the desirability of these measures is considered
and some of the TRIPs measures are analysed to show that their
'flexibility' may be being curtailed. 

Charles Lawson is a Research Fellow with the Australian Centre for
Intellectual Property in Agriculture at Griffith University. He holds
combined Science and Law degrees from the ANU, a Master of Laws from QUT
and a Doctorate of Philosophy from the ANU. His research interests
include the interaction between law and genetics through intellectual
property, competition, trade, access, taxation, public and
administrative law, risk assessment and management, and evolving human
rights.