Professor Graham Dutfield: "From Traditional Medicines to Modern Drugs: Do Patents Protect Inventions and Promote Biopiracy?"

Graham Dutfield is Professor of International Governance at Leeds University School of Law. He is also associated with the Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre at Oxford University, Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto, and the Center for Studies of Intellectual Property Rights at Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, Wuhan, China. Recent books include Intellectual Property Rights and the Life Science Industries: Past, Present and Future (2nd ed.), and Global Intellectual Property Law (with U Suthersanen).

Professor Graham Dutfield will speak on "From Traditional Medicines to Modern Drugs: Do Patents Protect Inventions and Promote Biopiracy?" on Tuesday, 2 March 2010, 5:30 in LG17 at the Law Faculty.