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BLAKENEY, Michael
Michael Blakeney is Herchel Smith Professor of Intellectual Property Law at Queen Mary, University of London and Director of the Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute. He has held academic positions at a number of universities in Australia and the U.K. and worked in the Asia Pacific Bureau of the World Intellectual Property Organization. He is an arbitrator for the International Court of Arbitration. Professor Blakeney has acted as an intellectual property management advisor for the Asian Development Bank, the Consulting Group for International Agricultural Research, the European Commission (EC), the European Patent Office, the Food and Agricultural Organization, the World Intellectual Property Organization, and a number of universities and public research institutes.
He has directed E.C. projects to create intellectual property infrastructures in a number of new E.U. Member States and E.U. Applicant States. He has written and edited a number of books in the fields of intellectual property, media, and competition law. His most recent publications are: Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights. A Concise Guide to the TRIPS Agreement (London: Sweet & Maxwell, 1996); Intellectual Property Aspects of Ethnobiology (Editor) (London: Sweet & Maxwell, 1999); Border Control of Intellectual Property Rights (Editor) (London: Sweet & Maxwell, 2001); IP in Biodiversity and Agriculture: Regulating the Biosphere (Editor with P. Drahos) (London: Sweet & Maxwell, 2001); Enforcement Handbook (Brussels: EC, 2003), and International Encyclopaedia of Intellectual Property Treaties (with A. Ilardi) (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004).
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Conducting IP Audits
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This chapter explains how important it is for a research institute to audit both the intellectual property (IP) that it generates and the third party IP that its researchers utilize. Such an audit will have the practical consequence of enabling the research institute (when appropriate) to secure ownership, maintain, and manage the IP for which it is responsible.
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Plant Variety Protection, International Agricultural Research, and Exchange of Germplasm: Legal Aspects of Sui Generis and Patent Regimes
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This chapter outlines the range of plant variety protection regimes that currently exist internationally, including the International Convention for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants, the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, and the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. The chapter commences with a history of intellectual property laws affecting plant breeding and the genetic modification of plants. It explores the trend toward the harmonization of international standards and concludes with an examination of the impact of these developments upon germplasm exchange, international agricultural research, and food security.
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