Programs: Science and Policy
http://shr.aaas.org//tek/other.htm
AAAS Scientific Responsibility, Human Rights and Law Program
AAAS Project on Traditional Ecological Knowledge
Other project activities
TEK*PAD Coverage on BBC
SHR staff members Stephen Hansen and Justin VanFleet were interviewed by BBC radio for Go Digital, the weekly BBC World Service program that looks at how technology is changing our lives. Listen to the broadcast.
BBC News World Edition ran a feature article on T.E.K.* P.A.D., entitled "Healing Powers Go Online." Click here to see the story.
AAAS Annual Meeting 2003
On February 15, 2003 at the AAAS Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado, Justin
VanFleet spoke at a symposia entitled "Science's
Shrinking Public Domain?" The presentation focused on the effects of
intellectual property claims on the public domain using traditional knowledge
as a case study.
Roundtable on Traditional Knowledge and Intellectual Property, Geneva, 14 December 2002.
Patenting Plants. Justin W. Van Fleet. Science and Technology in Congress. October 2002.
AAAS Hosts Roundtable on Traditional Knowledge. Justin W. VanFleet. Report on Science and Human Rights. Winter 2003. Vol XXIII, No. 1.
Patents, traditional knowledge, and the USPTO: Clearing up some misconceptions in order to stop biopiracy. Justin W. VanFleet. Report on Science and Human Rights. Fall 2002. Vol XXII, No. 2.
Using New Tools to Protect Traditional Ecological Knowledge. Stephen A. Hansen. Report on Science and Human Rights. Winter 2002 Vol XXII, No. 1.
Intellectual Property and Traditional Ecological Knowledge: Institutionally Globalized Biopiracy? Stephen A. Hansen. Professional Ethics Report, AAAS Scientific Freedom, Responsibility and Law Program, Volume XV, Number 3, Summer 2002.
Documenting Traditional Knowledge as Prior Art. US Patent and Trademark Office. Tech Center 1600. August 20, 2002.
AAAS Website
Seeks to Protect Traditional Knowledge of Plants. AAAS News and Report.
Prior Art: The Place of Traditional Knowledge World Intellectual Property
Organization Conference on the International Patent System. Geneva. March 25
- 27, 2002.
AAAS Council Resolution on Traditional Knowledge
