WIPO Intellectual Property and Creative Small and Medium-sized Enterprises

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WIPO Intellectual Property and Creative Small and
Medium-sized Enterprises

• The South African
• Biotechnology Strategy
• and
• Protecting
• Biotechnological Inventions in South Africa

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Part 1 The South African Biotechnology Strategy
and InnovationPolicy

• A. Introduction to the National Biotechnology
  Strategy
• B. Definition of Biotechnology
• C. What does the Biotech Strategy aim to do?
• D. Stimulating Biotechnological Innovation
  through Regional Innovation Centres (BRICs)
• E. Biotech Surveys and Statistics
• F. Areas in which the Biotechnology Strategy can
  greater help SMEs.

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Part 2 - A South African Patent Law

• A. The Protection of Biotechnological Inventions
• Ai South African Patent Law
• Aii TRIPS Compliant

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Part 2 B South African Patent Law

• B. Registrars Right to Refuse Patent Grant.
• Bi Disclosure of Indigenous Origin Section 3 A
  of the Patents Amendment Act
• Bii Immorality as a ground for Exclusion

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Part 2 C South African Patent Law

• C. Guidance from the EU Law regarding Product
  Patents on DNA Sequences

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Part 3 Conclusion

• Patents as Exclusive Rights, Promoters of
  Publically Accessible Scientific and Technical
  Information, and Instruments of Economic Policy
• Patenting Genetic Information in South Africa
• Re-structuring the SAPTO
• Include SMEs and discuss their role in the Update
  to the SA Biotechnology Stratgey

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Thank You ?

• By
• Ugreson Maistry, LL.M (MIPLC)
• Attorney of the High Court of South Africa