intellectual property amendment act and indigenous knowledge act
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18 Oct 2010
Intellectual Property Laws Amendment Bill: public hearings; Minister on National Consumer Commissioner appointment
Committee Meeting | Trade and Industry | National Assembly
... Submissions on the Intellectual Property Laws Amendment Bill were heard from the Legal Resources Centre ... concerns about the Bill’s proposed amendments to Section 9 of the Act would materially prejudice the rights ...
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22 Jul 2010
Traditional Leaders role and status: National House of Traditional Leaders briefing
Committee Meeting | Constitutional Review Committee | Joint (NA + NCOP)
... extensive recommendations for amendments to the Constitution, including amendments to Sections 9, 41(2), 151 ... there seemed to be some problems with the Indigenous Knowledge Fund Bill and sought input from the presenters ...
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02 Aug 2010
Plant Breeders' Rights Policy amendments: briefing by Department of Agriculture, Forestry & Fisheries
Committee Meeting | Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development | National Assembly
... the Plant Breeders’ Rights was a form of intellectual property right granted to plant breeders of newly ... told the Committee that the Plant Breeders’ Rights Act 1976 was revised in 1996 without a holistic policy ...
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06 Sep 2010
Intellectual Property Rights Amendment Bill: Workshop
Committee Meeting | Trade and Industry | National Assembly
... World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property, Genetic ... the Committee’s workshop on the Intellectual Property Rights Amendment Bill. The first presentation, on ...
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16 Feb 2010
Indigenous Knowledge protection policy using the Intellectual Property System
Committee Meeting | Trade and Industry | National Assembly
... policy on the protection of Indigenous Knowledge using the Intellectual Property system. Their presentation ... National Indigenous Knowledge Systems Office (NIKSO) which had been established to promote Indigenous knowledge ...
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09 Nov 2010
Indigenous Knowledge Systems: Impact of policies of Department of Science & Technology
Committee Meeting | Science and Technology | National Assembly
... origins of indigenous knowledge could be established, what would happen to the intellectual property rights ... Trade and Industry, to discuss the Intellectual Property Rights Amendment Bill (the Bill), questions had ...
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18 May 2010
Intellectual Property Laws Amendment Bill [B8-2010]: Department of Trade and Industry: Briefing
Committee Meeting | Trade and Industry | National Assembly
... protected tangible aspects of indigenous knowledge, not the intellectual property component. Examples of the ... the use in foreign law of intellectual property to protect indigenous knowledge included Egypt, Tunisia ...
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13 Oct 2010
National Advisory Council on Innovation (NACI) Annual Report 2009/10; Department of Science & Technology on 2009/10 Annual Report; Meeting with Iranian delegation
Committee Meeting | Science and Technology | National Assembly
... The way forward for NACI was for the NACI Act to be amended to allow for the independence of NACI to optimise ... appointed and draft regulations of the National Intellectual Property Management Office were published for public ...
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18 Mar 2010
SABC, Universal Access Agency SA; National Electronic Media Institute SA Strategic Plans and Budget 2010
Committee Meeting | Communications | National Assembly
... SABC was aligned with the Act so not much could be done until the Act was amended. Mr Nicholson told the ... corporate goals; Public Finance Management Act (PFMA); Companies Act; Shareholder Compact and Materiality Framework; ...
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01 Jun 2010
Intellectual Property Laws Amendment Bill [B8-2010]: Committee Workshop
Committee Meeting | Trade and Industry | National Assembly
... on the Intellectual Property Laws Amendment Bill [B8-2010]. He discussed the aims of intellectual property ... cultural dimension to intellectual property. The traditional paradigm in intellectual property was the individual ...
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23 Mar 2010
Technology Innovation Agency on its Strategic Corporate Plan
Committee Meeting | Science and Technology | National Assembly
... innovators would be assisted with licensing and intellectual property rights. They asked if the funding model ...
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09 Nov 2010
Water Research Council, iSimangoliso, South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI), South African National Parks (SANParks) Annual Reports 2009/10
Committee Meeting | Water and Sanitation | National Assembly
... particularly interested in how entities ensured that the knowledge that they had created was being effectively disseminated ...
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26 Jul 2010
Intellectual Property Laws Amendment Bill: Input from NEDLAC & Departments of Trade and Industry and Science and Technology
Committee Meeting | Trade and Industry | National Assembly
... Biodiversity Act, and, if the proposed act was not to be implemented retrospectively, what the proposed act was ... interface of traditional or indigenous knowledge and intellectual property and its commercialisation. ...
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02 Nov 2010
Intellectual Property Laws Amendment Bill [B8-2010]: public hearings
Committee Meeting | Trade and Industry | National Assembly
... period for protection of indigenous knowledge under the intellectual property laws was acknowledged. ... and the Community of Orania on the Intellectual Property Laws Amendment Bill. The Bill introduced provisions ...
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09 Nov 2010
Intellectual Property Laws Amendment Bill: Department of Trade and Industry's responses on public hearings
Committee Meeting | Trade and Industry | National Assembly
... protection of Indigenous Knowledge was not workable •Collective ownership of Intellectual Property was not ... the current Intellectual Property system versus a sui generis system for Indigenous Knowledge •The Bill ...
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12 Oct 2010
Department of Trade and Industry on the Annual Report for 2009/2010: briefing
Committee Meeting | NCOP Trade & Industry, Economic Development, Small Business, Tourism, Employment & Labour | National Council of Provinces
... Protection Act 2008, The Companies Act 2008 and the Competition Amendment Act 2009 The Intellectual Property ... Property Amendment Bill to protect indigenous knowledge had been introduced to Parliament. Gambling legislation ...
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19 Jul 2010
Department of Tourism; Department of Arts and Culture; National House of Traditional Leaders; and South African Heritage Resources Agency: Heritage and Cultural Tourism as a means of economic development for rural communities: Hearings
Committee Meeting | Tourism | National Assembly
... Traditional Leadership and Governance Framework Act in Sections 19 and 20 provided for Government departments ... economic activities – including crafts and intellectual property rights. Members asked what was being done ...
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26 Oct 2010
South African Medical Research Council 2009/10 Annual Report
Committee Meeting | Health | National Assembly
... commented on indigenous knowledge and said there was an observation that some indigenous plants had been ... detriment of overall knowledge. Dr Dhansay said MRC valued indigenous knowledge and had a dedicated ...
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27 Jul 2010
Intellectual Property Bill: input by Commission for the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Communities & Department of Trade and Industry
Committee Meeting | Trade and Industry | National Assembly
... the World Intellectual Property Organisation advocated for recognition of intellectual property developed ... developed from indigenous knowledge. Forms of intellectual property included patents, trade marks, copyright ...
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19 Oct 2010
Intellectual Property Laws Amendment Bill [B8-2010]: public hearings Day 2
Committee Meeting | Trade and Industry | National Assembly
... Alliance asked if there was a need to amend the Trademarks Act, if in research it had been considered ... World Intellectual Property Organisation was based, to examine South African intellectual property. It ...