Comments on: Bolivia’s position about life forms patentability https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/bolivias-position-about-life-forms-patentability/2010/03/08 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Wed, 10 Oct 2018 11:26:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 By: Tere https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/bolivias-position-about-life-forms-patentability/2010/03/08/comment-page-1#comment-423283 Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:52:56 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=7703#comment-423283 Thanks, this is a good summary.

]]> By: Sepp https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/bolivias-position-about-life-forms-patentability/2010/03/08/comment-page-1#comment-423132 Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:39:37 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=7703#comment-423132 A summary of the Bolivian position has now been posted here:

http://www.laleva.org/eng/2010/03/bolivia_challenges_patentability_of_life_forms.html

]]> By: Sepp Hasslberger https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/bolivias-position-about-life-forms-patentability/2010/03/08/comment-page-1#comment-422778 Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:49:08 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=7703#comment-422778 Excellent proposal by the Bolivian delegation to the World Trade Organization’s Council for Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights.

It is time someone stood up against the gawdawful practice of patenting something which can in no case be considered to be a human invention – plant, animal or any other life forms.

The Bolivians are quite right and should be supported in their demand to

“prohibit the patenting of all life forms, including plants and animals and parts thereof, gene sequences, micro-organisms as well as all processes including biological, microbiological and non-biological processes for the production of life forms and parts thereof…”

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