International Intellectual Property Law and Human Security

Abstract

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Conceptualising Knowledge Governance for Development

“…In respect of human rights, we concur with Rens and Pfumorodze (2015), who succinctly lay out IP's human rights dimension, grounded in the 1966 International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. We are further persuaded by the 2003 report of the UN Commission on Human Security and the work of Ramcharan (2013). The UN Commission report foregrounds the urgency of matters of "ownership and application of knowledge for human health and security", referencing concerns over TRIPS patent provisions and applauding the developmental, access-to-medicines orientation of the 2001 Doha Declaration (UN Commission on Human Security, 2003, p. 103).…”

“…Several of the works cited in the previous sub-section on "development" -i.e., Abdel-Latif et al (2011 Correa (2000), Drahos and Braithwaite (2002), Ramcharan (2013), Sell (2003), the UK CIPR report (2002) -operate via this sort of knowledge governance conception, with an emphasis on the implications for developing nations.…”