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US stakeholders lament lack of clarity, impracticality of WIPO treaty language

By Melissa Ritti ( April 29, 2025, 18:35 GMT | Insight) -- A common refrain emerged at a hearing today hosted by the US Patent and Trademark Office: while the goals of the 2024 WIPO Treaty on Intellectual Property, Genetic Resources and Associated Traditional Knowledge are laudable, the ambiguities in its text and infeasibility of its demands are problematic. Declaring with certainty the country of origin for genetic resources, one commenter said, would be “like trying to trace a drop of water back to its original cloud.”Commenters found no shortage of problems with the 2024 World Intellectual Property Organization Treaty on Intellectual Property, Genetic Resources and Associated Traditional Knowledge at a hearing today with US Patent and Trademark Office officials....

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