Professor Graham Dutfield on Intellectual Property
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Over the past month Professor Graham Dutfield has travelled across Europe and the US delivering public lectures and presentations around one of his main research interests; intellectual property.
On March 20 Graham delivered an invited public lecture at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, on ‘Intellectual property, food security, and rural development’.
After a journey to the United States, he then gave a presentation at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan in a Symposium on Patents, Social Justice, and Public Responsibility on March 27. The title of his presentation was ‘Intellectual property and traditional knowledge: Personal reflections on the biopiracy debate, 1988-2017’.
Graham then closed his trip with a presentation on March 31 at the Texas A&M University School of Law as part of its Conference on Intellectual Property and Global Development: 50 Years after Stockholm. The title of his presentation was ‘Is patent law harmonising or diverging? The case of medical patenting’.