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The Patents Bill and the Wai 262 Report: two solitudes
The Patents Bill and the Wai 262 Report: two solitudes in search of common ground
By By guest blogger Doug Calhoun for sticK
(sticK - 26 Sept 2012 ) In an earlier post on the Patents Bill I mentioned that the introduction of the Bill had been delayed for 14 years because of concerns about the Wai 262 claim.
Nearly fifteen months after the Wai 262 Report was completed there has still been no formal government response to it.
The Patents Bill proposed to “address” the Wai 262 claims by establishing a Maori advisory committee to advise the Patents Commissioner (on request) on whether:
“a) an invention claimed in a patent
application is derived from Maori traditional knowledge or
from indigenous plants or animals; and
(b) if so, whether
the commercial exploitation of that invention is likely to
be contrary to Maori values.”
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