Chidi Oguamanam

University of Ottawa - Common Law Section

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1.

Intellectual Property Rights in Plant Genetic Resources: Farmers' Rights and Food Security of Indigenous and Local Communities

11 Drake Journal of Agricultural Law 273-305, 2006
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 29 Jun 2013
Chidi Oguamanam
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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international, law, agriculture, farmer, biotechnology, agricultural, food security, biodiversity, legal, patent, rights, intellectual property, ITPGRFA, Treaty, plant genetic resources, knowledge, development,

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Documentation and Digitization of Traditional Knowledge and Intangible Cultural Knowledge: Challenges and Prospects

In Toshiyuki Kono, ed., Intangible Cultural Heritage and Intellectual Property: Cultural Diversity and Sustainable Development (Antwerp: Intersentia, 2009) 357-383
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 20 Jul 2013
Chidi Oguamanam
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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TRIPS, international, intellectual, property, law, legal, proprietize, knowledge, cultural, heritage, indigenous, documentation, digitization, appropriate, anti-appropriative, knowledge, protection, public domain,

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Lawyers' Professionalism, Colonialism, State Formation and National Life in Nigeria, 1900-1960: 'The Fighting Brigade of the People'

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 21 Jan 2007
Chidi Oguamanam and Wesley Pue
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section and University of British Columbia (UBC), Faculty of Law
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lawyers, legal profession, colonialism, British Empire, Nigeria, professionalism, legal history

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Indigenous Peoples and International Law: The Making of a Regime

30 Queen's Law Journal 348-399, 2004
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 29 Jul 2013
Chidi Oguamanam
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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indigenous, international, law, natural law, positivist, customary, United Nations, international labour organization, ILO, rights, aboriginal, status, discrimination

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Geographical Indication (GI) Options for Ethiopian Coffee and Ghanian Cocoa

In J. De Beer, C Armstrong, C. Oguamanam, T. Schonwetter, eds., Innovation & Intellectual Property: Collaborative Dynamics in Africa (Cape Town: University of Cape Town Press, 2013), 77-108 , Ottawa Faculty of Law Working Paper No. 2014-21
Number of pages: 74 Posted: 11 Aug 2014 Last Revised: 04 Oct 2014
Chidi Oguamanam and Teshager W. Dagne
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section and Thompson Rivers University - Faculty of Law
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Geographical Indication, Ghana, Ethiopia, Cocoa, Coffee, Place-based, Intellectual Property, Value Chain, Open Innovation, Local Communities

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Innovation and Intellectual Property: Collaborative Dynamics in Africa

De Beer, J., Armstrong, C., Oguamanam, C., and Schonwetter, T. (Eds.) (2014), Innovation and Intellectual Property: Collaborative Dynamics in Africa, UCT Press, Cape Town, ISBN: 978-1-919895-99-4.
Number of pages: 70 Posted: 06 Mar 2015
Jeremy de Beer, Chris Armstrong, Chidi Oguamanam and Tobias Schonwetter
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section, University of the Witwatersrand - Faculty of Humanities, University of Ottawa - Common Law Section and University of Cape Town (UCT) - Faculty of Law
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Innovation, Intellectual Property, Collaboration, Africa, Openness

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Agro-Biodiversity and Food Security: Biotechnology and Traditional Agricultural Practices at the Periphery of International Intellectual Property Regime Complex

Michigan State Law Review, Vol. 2007, No. 215, 2007
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 28 Jun 2013
Chidi Oguamanam
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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regime, international, law, legal, global, TRIPS, trade, intellectual property, rights, agreement, agriculture, biodiversity, food, security, biotechnology

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Beyond 'Nollywood' and Piracy: In Search of an Intellectual Property Policy for Nigeria

NIALS Journal of Intellectual Property Maiden Edition (2011) 3-37
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 29 Jul 2013
Chidi Oguamanam
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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Nollywood, Nigeria, law, legal, policy, technology, intellectual property, knowledge, economy, traditional, technology, piracy, anti-piracy, indigenous, agriculture, copyright, developing country, farmers, rights, medicine, environmental protection, food security

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Genetic Resources & Access and Benefit Sharing: Politics, Prospects and Opportunities for Canada after Nagoya

22:2 Journal of Environmental Law and Practice 87-201, 2011
Number of pages: 120 Posted: 22 Jun 2013
Chidi Oguamanam
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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biotechnology, intellectual property, knowledge economy, IP, law, legal, policy, developed, developing, countries, biological, diversity, biodiversity, resources, indigenous, genetic, access, benefit, sharing, Convention on Biological Diversity, Canada, Nagoya, protocol, international, global

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Genetic Use Restriction (or Terminator) Technologies (Gurts) in Agricultural Biotechnology: The Limits of Technological Alternatives to Intellectual Property

Canadian Journal of Law and Technology, pp. 59-76, 2005
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 11 Aug 2013
Chidi Oguamanam
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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The Protection of Traditional Knowledge: Towards a Cross-Cultural Dialogue on Intellectual Property Rights

15 Australian Intellectual Property Journal 1 (2004) 34-59
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 10 Jul 2013
Chidi Oguamanam
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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intellectual property, rights, indigenous, knowledge, sui generis, epistemology, law, legal, West, scientific, patent, traditional medicine, cross-cultural, local, global, international

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Local Knowledge as Trapped Knowledge: Intellectual Property, Culture, Power and Politics

11 Journal of World Intellectual Property 29-57, 2008
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 23 Jun 2013
Chidi Oguamanam
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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local, knowledge, intellectual property, IP, culture, power, indigenous, communities, culture, cosmopolitanism, politics, rights, bioprospecting, medical, medicinal, pharmaceutical, access, benefit sharing, knowledge

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Beyond Theories: Intellectual Property Dynamics in the Global Knowledge Economy

Wake Forest Intellectual Property Law Journal Vol. 9, No. 2
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 23 Jun 2013
Chidi Oguamanam
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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global, knowledge, economy, intellectual property, IP, law, legal, policy, technology, digital, international, global knowledge economy, public health, human rights, biodiversity, biotechnology, biopiracy, environment, ethics, research, culture, indigenous, commerce

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Access and Benefit Sharing, Canadian and Aboriginal Research Ethics Policy after the Nagoya Protocol: Digital DNA and Transformations in Biotechnology

Forthcoming, JELP Volume 3, Issue 1 pp. 79-112, Ottawa Faculty of Law Working Paper No. 2018-01
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 13 Dec 2017
Chidi Oguamanam and Vipal Jain
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section and Open AIR, University of Ottawa
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Access and Benefit Sharing, Indigenous Knowledge, Canada, Nagoya Protocol, Genetic Resources, Research Ethics, Digital DNA, Synthetic Biology, Tri-Council Policy

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Patents and Traditional Medicine: Digital Capture, Creative Legal Interventions, and the Dialectics of Knowledge Transformation

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies, Vol. 5, No. 2, 2008
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 23 Jun 2013
Chidi Oguamanam
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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indigenous, local, knowledge, intellectual property, IP, global, international, cultural, cosmopolitanism, knowledge, digitization, traditional, medicine, medicinal, digital, herbal medicine, patent, law, legal, disclosure, origin, geographical, indications, India, China, Taiwan

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Intellectual Property and the Right to Adequate Food: A Critical African Perspective

(2015) 23:3 African Journal of International and Comparative Law 503-525
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 03 Nov 2015
Chidi Oguamanam
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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Intellectual Property, Human Rights, Right to Food, Africa, Food Security, Food Sovereignty, Traditional Agriculture, Industrial Agriculture, Agricultural Biotechnology, Developing Countries, UPOV, TRIPS,

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The Convention on Biological Diversity and Intellectual Property Rights: The Challenge of Indigenous Knowledge

7 Southern Cross University Law Review 2003
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 10 Jul 2013 Last Revised: 15 May 2014
Chidi Oguamanam
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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biological, diversity, biodiversity, intellectual property, law, legal, international, TRIPS, convention, patent, trade secret, indigenous, native, local, knowledge, tradition, protection, cross-cultural, World Intellectual Property Organization, WIPO

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Wandering Footloose: Traditional Knowledge and the 'Public Domain' Revisited

JWIP 2018; 1-20, Ottawa Faculty of Law Working Paper No. 2018-16
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 10 May 2018
Chidi Oguamanam
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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Intellectual Property, Organizations and Agreements, Public Domain, Traditional Knowledge, WIPO

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Breeding Apples for Oranges: Africa's Misplaced Priority Over Plant Breeders' Rights

Journal of World Intellectual Property 8 AUG 2015 DOI: 10.1111/jwip.12039
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 23 Jan 2015 Last Revised: 30 Oct 2015
Chidi Oguamanam
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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Africa, Plant Breeders' Rights, Farmers' Rights, AU, ARIPO, OAPI, SADC, AGOA, EU-EPA, UPOV, TRIPS, Uganda, Tanzania, Ghana, Kenya

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Indigenous Peoples' Rights at the Intersection of Human Rights and Intellectual Property Rights

Marquette Intellectual Property Law Review, Vol. 18, No. 2, 2014
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 10 Aug 2013 Last Revised: 31 Jan 2015
Chidi Oguamanam
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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Intellectual property, human rights, indigenous peoples, indigenous knowledge

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Localizing Intellectual Property in the Globalization Epoch: The Integration of Indigenous Knowledge

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Localizing Intellectual Property in the Globalization Epoch: The Integration of Indigenous Knowledge

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies, Vol. 11, No. 2, 2004
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 12 Aug 2013
Chidi Oguamanam
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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Intellectual property, International law, Patents, Customary law, Traditional medicine, Ethnoscience

Localizing Intellectual Property in the Globalization Epoch: The Integration of Indigenous Knowledge

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies, Vol. 11, No. 2, 2004
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 29 Jul 2013
Chidi Oguamanam
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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international, law, legal, intellectual property, knowledge, sui generis, traditional, indigenous, epistemology, patent, rights

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Plant Breeders’ Rights, Farmers’ Rights and Food Security: Africa’s Failure of Resolve and India’s Wobbly Leadership

Indian Journal of Law and Technology, Forthcoming , Ottawa Faculty of Law Working Paper No. 2018-17
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 16 May 2018
Chidi Oguamanam
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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Africa, India, Plant Breeders’ Rights, Plant Variety Protection, Farmers’ Rights, Traditional Agriculture, Agro-Biodiversity, Food Security, South-South Solidarity

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Intellectual Property: The Promise and Risk of Human Rights

T Scassa, Courtney B Gaogoo et al., eds., Intellectual Property for the 21st Century: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Intellectual Property Law (Toronto: Irwin Law, 2014)
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 18 Aug 2016
Chidi Oguamanam
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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intellectual property, intellectual property rights, human rights, interdisciplinary studies, public policy

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Farmers’ Rights and the Intellectual Property Dynamic in Agriculture

Chapter 13, Sage Handbook of Intellectual Property (Matthew David & Deborah Halbert, eds., Sage, London, 2014 pp. 238-257).
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 26 Jan 2015 Last Revised: 28 Jan 2015
Chidi Oguamanam
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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Farmers' Rights, Intellectual Property, Agriculture, Indigenous and Local Communities, CGIAR, Food Security, Plant Genetic Resources, Seeds

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Intellectual Property Training and Education: A Development Perspective

International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, Issue Paper No. 31, 2010
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 16 Jul 2013
Jeremy de Beer and Chidi Oguamanam
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section and University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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TRIPS, international, intellectual property, law, legal, WIPO, world, organization, WIPO Academy, education, developing, development, Nigeria, piracy, rights, training

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Patents and Pharmaceutical R&D: Consolidating Private-Public Partnership Approach to Global Public Health Crises

13:4 Journal of World Intellectual Property 556-580, 2010
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 22 Jun 2013
Chidi Oguamanam
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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pharmaceutical, patent, health, drugs, IP, R&D, research, development, intellectual property, medicine, access to medicine, incentive, global public health

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Rio+20: Indigenous Knowledge and Intellectual Property in Coastal and Ocean Law

27 Ocean Yearbook 121 (2013)
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 16 Jul 2013
Chidi Oguamanam
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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indigenous knowledge, intellectual property, Rio, Rio 20, summit, marine, genetic resources, research, coastal, ocean, natural resources, developing, bioprospecting,

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Organic Farming in Nigeria in the Era of Agro-Biotech and Biosafety

Journal of Advances in Agricultural Science and Technology, Vol 3 (6), pp. 77-80 September, 2015
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 24 Nov 2015
Chidi Oguamanam
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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Organic farming, Biosafety, conventional agriculture, agriculture biotechnology, farmers, Nigeria, Africa

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Regime Tension in the Intellectual Property Rights Arena: Farmers' Rights and Post-TRIPS Counter Regime Trends

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Regime Tension in the Intellectual Property Rights Arena: Farmers' Rights and Post-TRIPS Counter Regime Trends

29 Dalhousie Law Journal 413-453
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 23 Jun 2013
Chidi Oguamanam
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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global, intellectual property, IP, research, TRIPS, farmers, rights, trade, international, treaty, plant, genetic, resources, food, agriculture, ITPGRFA, convention, biological, diversity, bio-cultural, knowledge, indigenous

Regime Tension in the Intellectual Property Rights Arena: Farmers' Rights and Post-TRIPS Counter Regime Trends

29 Dalhousie Law Journal 2 (2006)
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 20 Jul 2013
Chidi Oguamanam
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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TRIPS, tade-related aspects, intellectual property, rights, regime, farmers, law, legal, international, treaty, agreement, plant genetic resources, food and agriculture, ITPGRFA, bio-cultural, knowledge, indigenous, native, communities, Convention on Biological Diversity, CBD

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The Nigerian Trade Mark Regime and Challenges of Economic Development

30 International Review of Industrial Property and Copyright Law 6 (1999)
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 03 Nov 2015
Chidi Oguamanam and adebambo anthony adewopo
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section and Lagos State University
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Trademark, Trade Regulation, TRIPS, Nigeria, ECOWAS, West African, Foreign Investments, Economic Development

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Canada: Time to Take Access and Benefit Sharing over Genetic Resources Seriously

60 University of New Brunswick Law Journal 139-149 (2010)
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 08 Jul 2013
Chidi Oguamanam
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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access, benefit, sharing, biological, genetic, resources, indigenous, local, Canada, Canadian, law, legal, biotechnology, knowledge, international, intellectual, property, genetic, traditional, ecological, life sciences, bioethics, government

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Book Review: Law, Knowledge, Culture: The Production of Indigenous Knowledge in IP Law

SCRIPT-ed, Vol. 6, No. 3 (2009)
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 16 Jul 2013
Chidi Oguamanam
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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indigenous, knowledge, intellectual, property, Australia, colonialism, exploitation, expropriation, history, law, legal, commoditization, art, culture, international, book review, Anderson

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Intellectual Property Rights and Innovation: Assessing Regional Integration in Africa (Aria VIII)

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Intellectual Property Rights and Innovation: Assessing Regional Integration in Africa (Aria VIII)

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 30 Nov 2017
Caroline B. Ncube, Tobias Schonwetter, Chidi Oguamanam and Jeremy de Beer
University of Cape Town, University of Cape Town (UCT) - Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa - Common Law Section and University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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egional integration, international law, intellectual property, development, continental free trade agreement, WIPO, WTO, ARIPO, OAPI, PAIPO, trade, harmonization

Intellectual Property Rights and Innovation: Assessing Regional Integration in Africa (Aria VIII)

Open AIR Working Paper No 5/17
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 27 Jul 2017
Caroline B. Ncube, Tobias Schonwetter, Jeremy de Beer and Chidi Oguamanam
University of Cape Town, University of Cape Town (UCT) - Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa - Common Law Section and University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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regional integration, international law, intellectual property, development, continental free trade agreement, WIPO, WTO, ARIPO, OAPI, PAIPO, trade, harmonization

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Ocean Law Reform: A Multi-Level Comparative Law Analysis of Nigerian Maritime Zone Legislation

Marine Policy 67 (2016) 60-75
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 09 Sep 2016
Aldo Chircop, David Dzidzornu and Chidi Oguamanam
Dalhousie University - Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University - Marine and Environmental Law Institute and University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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Ocean law reform, Maritime zone legislation, Maritime Zones Act, UN LOS Convention, Comparative approach, Nigeria, West Africa

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Innovation, Intellectual Property and Development Narratives in Africa

J. de Beer, C. Oguamanam & T. Schonwetter, “Innovation, Intellectual Property and Development Narratives in Africa” in J. de Beer et al, eds, The Collaborative Dynamics of Innovation and Intellectual Property in Africa (Cape Town: UCT Press, 2014), p. 1-31.
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 29 Sep 2015
Jeremy de Beer, Chidi Oguamanam and Tobias Schonwetter
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section, University of Ottawa - Common Law Section and University of Cape Town (UCT) - Faculty of Law
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Innovation, African Studies, Sustainable Development, Intellectual Property

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Open Minds: Lessons on Intellectual Property, Innovation and Development from Nigeria

M. Smith and K. Reilly, eds, Open Development: Networked Innovations in International Development, (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2013), p. 249-72.
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 28 Sep 2015 Last Revised: 07 Oct 2015
Jeremy de Beer and Chidi Oguamanam
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section and University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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Innovation Studies, African Studies, Sustainable Development, Intellectual Property

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IP in Global Governance: A Venture in Critical Reflection

2:2 World Intellectual Property Organization Journal 196-216
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 23 Jun 2013
Chidi Oguamanam
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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TRIPS, technology, digital, biology, global, intellectual property, IP, socio-economic, cultural, sustainability, international, law, legal, policy, developing, equity

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Open Innovation in Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture

(2013) 13:1 Chicago Kent Journal of Intellectual Property 11-50
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 15 Aug 2013 Last Revised: 31 Jan 2015
Chidi Oguamanam
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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Intellectul Property, Innovation, Open Innovation, Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, Indigenous and Local Communities, CGIAR

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Between Reality and Rhetoric: The Epistemic Schism in the Recognition of Traditional Medicine in International Law

16 St. Thomas Law Review 1 (2003) 59-108
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 29 Jul 2013
Chidi Oguamanam
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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traditional, medicine, globalization, international, law, legal, policy, treaty, Western, non-Western, knowledge, world health organization, health, biomedical, epistemology, culture

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Cross-Cultural Dynamics in Palliative Care: The Emerging Canadian Scenario

39:2 Dalhousie Law Journal 455, Ottawa Faculty of Law Working Paper No. 2017-07
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 25 Jan 2017 Last Revised: 27 Feb 2017
Chidi Oguamanam
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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medical care, end of life, Canada's health care system, cultural mosaic

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Ramifications of WIPO IGC for IP and Development

(2017). Ramifications of WIPO IGC for IP and Development. In D. F. Robinson, A. Abdel-Latif, & P. Roffe (Eds.), Protecting Traditional Knowledge: The WIPO Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore (pp. 339-346). New York: Routledge
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 14 Jul 2017
Chidi Oguamanam
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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traditional knowledge, WIPO, IGC, CBD, intellectual property, biopiracy, development

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ICTs in Agricultural Production and Potential Deployment in Operationalising Geographical Indications in Uganda

Ottawa Faculty of Law Working Paper No. 2018-24
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 13 Sep 2018
Teshager W. Dagne and Chidi Oguamanam
Thompson Rivers University - Faculty of Law and University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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Knowledge & Innovation in Africa: Scenarios for the Future

S. Elahi and J. de Beer, with D. Kawooya, C. Oguamanam, N. Rizk, Knowledge & Innovation in Africa: Scenarios for the Future, (Cape Town: Open AIR, 2013).
Number of pages: 172 Posted: 28 Sep 2015
Jeremy de Beer, Chidi Oguamanam, Nagla Rizk, Shirin Elahi and Dick Kawooya
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section, University of Ottawa - Common Law Section, American University in Cairo - School of Business, Independent and University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee - School of Information Studies
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Innovation Studies, African Studies, Sustainable Development, Intellectual Property

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Protecting Indigenous Knowledge in International Law: Solidarity beyond the Nation-State

In C. Dauvergne and W. Wesley Pue eds. Challenging Nation (8 ed) Southwood Press, 2004
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 29 Jul 2013
Chidi Oguamanam
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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colonial, nation-state, colonization, indigenous, enclave, history, historical, international law, United Nations, settler, colonised, Third World, policy, non-state actors, knowledge, protection, intellectual property, rights, self-determination, decolonization, law, legal, epistemology, activism

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A Cross-Regional Research Partnership for Sustainable Development: The Open African Innovation Research (Open Air) Experience

Oguamanam, C., & de Beer, J. (2017). A Cross-Regional Research Partnership for Sustainable Development: The Open African Innovation Research (Open Air) Experience. (Open AIR Working Paper 8). Ottawa: Open AIR., Ottawa Faculty of Law Working Paper No. 2017-34
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 17 Jul 2017 Last Revised: 05 Sep 2017
Chidi Oguamanam and Jeremy de Beer
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section and University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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open data, public private partnerships, Open AIR, development gap, sustainable development, cross-regional, knowledge governance, innovation

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Current Realities of Collaborative Intellectual Property in Africa

J. de Beer, C. Armstrong, C. Oguamanam & T. Schonwetter, “Current Realities of Collaborative Intellectual Property in Africa” in J. de Beer et al, eds, The Collaborative Dynamics of Innovation and Intellectual Property in Africa (Cape Town: UCT Press, 2014), p. 373-94.
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 28 Sep 2015 Last Revised: 29 Sep 2015
Jeremy de Beer, Chris Armstrong, Chidi Oguamanam and Tobias Schonwetter
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section, University of the Witwatersrand - Faculty of Humanities, University of Ottawa - Common Law Section and University of Cape Town (UCT) - Faculty of Law
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Intellectual Property Rights, Sustainable Development, Innovation Studies

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Book Review -- 'Global Bio-Piracy: Patents, Plants and Indigenous Knowledge,' by Ikechi Mgbeoji, Vancouver: UBC Press, 2005, 311 pp.

39:2 University of British Columbia Law Review 397-405.
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 20 Jul 2013
Chidi Oguamanam
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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bio-piracy, international, law, legal, access to benefits, genetic resources, knowledge, intellectual property, rights, indigenous, local, native, non-western, property rights, gender, race, epistemology, plants, plant breeders, appropriation, cultural, diversity, state responsibility, patent

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Book Review of 'Legal Issues in Electronic Commerce, 2nd Edition'

5 Canadian Journal of Law and Technology 1 (2005)
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 29 Jul 2013
Chidi Oguamanam
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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Canada, Canadian, law, legal, electronic, commerce, e-commerce, information technology, economic, regulation, cyberspace, jurisdiction

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Tension on the Farm Fields: The Death of Traditional Agriculture?

27: 4 Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society 260-273, 2007
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 08 Jul 2013
Chidi Oguamanam
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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Agricultural Biotechnology, Traditional Agriculture, Genetic Contamination, Gene Wandering, Intellectual Property, Agricultural Communities, Common Law Liability, Agro-epistemic Pluralism, Judicial and Public Policy

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Toward a Constructive Engagement: Agricultural Biotechnology as a Public Health Incentive for Less Developed Countries

Journal of Food Law and Policy, Vol. 7, No. 2, 2011
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 10 Aug 2013 Last Revised: 26 Feb 2014
Chidi Oguamanam
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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Agricultural Law, Agricultural Biotechnology, Publich Health and Policy, Biofortification, Global Hunger, Malnutrition

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Tiered or Differentiated Approach to Traditional Knowledge and Traditional Cultural Expressions: The Evolution of a Concept

Ottawa Faculty of Law Working Paper No. 2018-28
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 04 Nov 2018
Chidi Oguamanam
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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Traditional Knowledge, Intellectual Property, Indigenous Peoples, World Intellectual Property Organization

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ABS: Big Data, Data Sovereignty and Digitization: A New Indigenous Research Landscape

Oguamanam, Chidi, ed. Genetic Resources, Justice and Reconciliation: Canada and Global Access and Benefit Sharing, ed (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018), Ottawa Faculty of Law Working Paper No. 2019-14
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 19 May 2019
Chidi Oguamanam
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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Medical Law, Ethics and forensic Medicine, Medicine, Intellectual Property, Law, traditional knowledge, self-determination, Indigenous, Nagoya Protocol, reconciliation, genetic resources, information technology

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Book Review: Graham Dutfield, Intellectual Property Rights and the Life Science Industries: Past, Present and Future, 2nd Ed. (World Scientific, 2009)

4:2 Canadian Journal of Law and Technology 147-151 (2009)
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 16 Jul 2013
Chidi Oguamanam
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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pharmacy, pharmaceutical, drugs, industry, intellectual, property, law, legal, research, life sciences, patents, invent, natural, human-made, book review, Dutfield, Graham

54.

Personalized Medicine and Complementary and Alternative Medicine: In Search of Common Grounds

15 Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine 8 (943-949) (2009)
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 23 Jun 2013
Chidi Oguamanam
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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complementary, alternative, medicine, medical, technology, personalized medicine, biomedicine, genomics, gene-environment, toxicogenomics

55.

Sustainable Development in the Era of Bioenergy and Agricultural Land Grab

International Environmental Law and the Global South (S. Alam, S. Atapattu, C.G. Gonzalez & J. Razzaque, eds., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015)
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 02 Feb 2015 Last Revised: 08 Jun 2016
Chidi Oguamanam
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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Bioenergy, Biofuel, Landgrab, Sustainable Developement, Agriculture, Africa, North-South, South-South, Food Security, etc.

56.

Trade Marks Regulations in Nigeria and the Challenges of TRIPS

Managing Intellectual Property: Trademark Yearbook 1996, p. 38, 1996
Number of pages: 3 Posted: 14 Aug 2013
Chidi Oguamanam
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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The CBD Initiative on GURTs: A Significant Step in Stormy Waters

32 Bulletin of the Canadian Indigenous Biodiversity Network 2003
Number of pages: 3 Posted: 29 Jul 2013
Chidi Oguamanam
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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genetic use restriction technologies, genetic, technology, development, developing countries, biodiversity, biosafety, intellectual property, traditional knowledge, food, security, health, rights, convention on biological diversity, indigenous, farm, international, treaty, plant genetic resources

58.

Combating Product Counterfeiters in Nigeria

'Managing Intellectual Property', Trade Mark Yearbook, 1997
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 11 Aug 2013
Chidi Oguamanam
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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Biomedical Orthodoxy and Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Ethical Challenges of Integrating Medical Cultures

12:6 Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine 557-581, 2006
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 23 Jun 2013
Chidi Oguamanam
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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law, legal, medical, medicine, biomedical, complementary, alternative, medicine, culture, ethics, CAN, complementary and alternative medicine, system

60.

Towards a Tiered or Differentiated Approach to Protection of Traditional Knowledge (TK) and Traditional Cultural Expressions (TCEs) in Relation to the Intellectual Property System

The African Journal of Information and Communication (AJIC) Issue 23, 2019, Ottawa Faculty of Law Working Paper No. 2019-30
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 01 Jul 2019
Chidi Oguamanam
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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Indigenous Peoples and local communities (IPLCs), genetic resources (GRs), traditional knowledge (TK), traditional cultural expressions (TCEs), tiered or differentiated approach, intellectual property (IP), World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), Traditional Knowledge and Folklore (IGC)

61.

Comparative Study of the Nagoya Protocol, the Plant Treaty and the UPOV Convention: The Interface of Access and Benefit Sharing and Plant Variety Protection

Ottawa Faculty of Law Working Paper No. 2019-29
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 20 Jun 2019
Jorge Cabrera Medaglia, Chidi Oguamanam, Oliver Rukundo and Frederic Perron-Welch
affiliation not provided to SSRN, University of Ottawa - Common Law Section, Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL) and Leiden University
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Access and Benefit-Sharing, Nagoya Protocol, International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, International Convention for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants, Intellectual Property Rights, Plant Variety Protection

62.

Book Review - Biotechnology Unglued: Science, Society and Social Cohesion

4:2 Canadian Journal of Law and Technology 147-151, 2005
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 29 Jul 2013
Chidi Oguamanam
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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Mehta, agriculture, medicine, forensic, biotechnology, cohesion, cohesive, society, communities, genetically-modified, health, criminal justice, academia, policy, societies

63.

Book Review: Collective Insecurity: The Liberian Crisis, Unilateralism & Global Order: Ikechi Mgbeoji

27 Dalhousie L.J. 285 (Spring 2004)
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 11 Aug 2013
Chidi Oguamanam
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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Plant Genetic Resources Interdependence: Re-Integrating Farmers into the Global Food System

in J. Liljeblad and A. Kennedy, Food Systems Governance: Challenges for Justice, Equality and Human Rights (London: Earthscan, 2016) pp. 143-162
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 09 Sep 2015 Last Revised: 31 Jan 2017
Chidi Oguamanam
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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Plant genetic resources, global interdependence, genetic diversity, global food system, small holder farmers, innovation, agriculture, agro-biodiversity, agro-ecology, technology, capital, intellectuall property, industrialized countries, developing countries, seed systems

65.

From Rivalry to Rapprochement: Bio-Medicine, Complementary Alternative Medicine (Cam) at Ethical Crossroads

18:3 HEC [HealthCare Ethics Committee Forum], pp. 245-263, September 2006
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 20 Jul 2013
Chidi Oguamanam
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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bio-medicine, complementary alternative medicine, integrated, medical, medicine, law, legal, ethical, ethics, bio-ethics, health, care, policy, public health, education, curriculum, therapeutic, knowledge, traditions, assess, evaluate, criteria

66.

Africa's Food Security in a Broken Global Food System: What Role for Plant Breeders’ Rights?

Queen Mary Journal of Intellectual Property, Vol 5, No. 4, pp. 409-429, 2015
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 04 Nov 2015 Last Revised: 31 Jan 2017
Chidi Oguamanam
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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Africa, AU, EU, ARIPO, OAPI, SADC, plant breeders’ rights, PBR, smallholder farmers, food security, global food system, plant genetic resources, agriculture, agricultural sustainability

67.

The ABS Canada Initiative: Scoping and Gauging Indigenous Responses to ABS

Oguamanam, Chidi, ed. Genetic Resources, Justice and Reconciliation: Canada and Global Access and Benefit Sharing, ed (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018)., Ottawa Faculty of Law Working Paper No. 2019-13
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 19 May 2019
Chidi Oguamanam
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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medical law, ethics and forensic medicine, medicine, intellectual property, law, traditional knowledge, Canada, genetic resources, Indigenous

68.

Sustainable Development through a Cross-Regional Research Partnership

The Cambridge Handbook of Public-Private Partnerships, Intellectual Property Governance, and Sustainable Development (2018)
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 10 Jan 2019
Chidi Oguamanam and Jeremy de Beer
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section and University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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open data, public private partnerships, sustainable development, cross-regional, knowledge governance, innovation

69.

Biopiracy Flashpoints and Increasing Tensions over ABS in Canada

Oguamanam, Chidi, ed. Genetic Resources, Justice and Reconciliation: Canada and Global Access and Benefit Sharing, ed (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018)
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 11 Feb 2019
Chidi Oguamanam and Christopher Koziol
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Medical Law, Ethics and forensic Medicine, Medicine, Intellectual Property, Law, traditional knowledge, biopiracy, Indigenous peoples, genetic resources,

70.

Implications of the Evolution of Canada’s Three Orders of Government for ABS Implementation

Oguamanam, Chidi, ed. Genetic Resources, Justice and Reconciliation: Canada and Global Access and Benefit Sharing, ed (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018).
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 11 Feb 2019
Frederic Perron-Welch and Chidi Oguamanam
Leiden University and University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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Medical Law, Ethics and forensic Medicine, Medicine, Intellectual Property, Law, traditional knowledge, self-determination, Indigenous, Nagoya Protocol, reconciliation, genetic resources,

71.

Aboriginal Partnership, Capacity Building and Capacity Development on ABS: The Maritime Aboriginal Peoples Council (MAPC) and ABS Canada Experience

Oguamanam, Chidi, ed. Genetic Resources, Justice and Reconciliation: Canada and Global Access and Benefit Sharing, ed (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018).
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 11 Feb 2019
Chidi Oguamanam and Roger Hunka
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Medical Law, Ethics and forensic Medicine, Medicine, Intellectual Property, Law, Nagoya Protocol, Indigenous Knowledge, Aboriginal Peoples, capacity development, capacity building

72.

Intellectual Property in Global Governance: A Development Question

Routledge: New York, 2012.
Posted: 31 Aug 2016
Chidi Oguamanam
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section

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Intellectual Property, TRIPS, bio-technology, bio-diversity, bio-prospecting, bio-piracy, Global Knowledge Economy

73.

Pressuring 'Suspect Orthodoxy': Traditional Knowledge and the Patent System

Indigenous Intellectual Property: A Handbook of Contemporary Research, Matthew Rimmer, ed. (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2015) pp. 313-333 (Chapter 13)
Posted: 09 Jun 2016
Chidi Oguamanam
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section

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Patents, Traditional Knowledge, Science, Technology, Philosophy, History, CBD, TRIPS, ABS, WIPO, IGC, Genetic Resources

74.

Intellectual Property in Global Governance

London/New York: Routledge, 2011
Posted: 27 Jul 2013
Chidi Oguamanam
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section

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intellectual property, law, legal, global, governance, international, TRIPS, trade-related, bio-technology, biodiversity, bioprospecting, biopiracy, piracy, prospecting, regime, North-South, knowledge, economy, globalization

75.

International Law and Indigenous Knowledge: Intellectual Property, Plant Biodiversity and Traditional Medicine

Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006
Posted: 27 Jul 2013
Chidi Oguamanam
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section

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law, legal, indigenous, knowledge, Native, local, intellectual property, global, international, rights, policy, protection, system, crisis, legitimacy, culture, cross-cultural, traditional, medicine, biodiversity

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Biodiversity

in Alam, Bhuiyan, Chowdhury and Techera eds., Routledge Handbook of International Environmental Law. Routledge, 2012
Posted: 21 Jul 2013 Last Revised: 11 Aug 2013
Chidi Oguamanam
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section

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chapter, biological diversity, biodiversity, international, environmental law, global, protection, diversity, 1992, Rio, protocol, Rio package, convention on biological diversity, CBD, regulation, conservation, environment, law, legal, development

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Book Review: Legal Aspects of Implementing the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

10:1 McGill Journal of Sustainable Development Law and Practice 8-16, 2016
Posted: 14 Aug 2016
Chidi Oguamanam
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section

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CBD, Cartagena Protocol, biotechnology, sustainable development