09:30 am

Registration

Inaugural Session

10:00 am – 10:30 am

Keynote Address :

How TRIPS came to be

Mr. S.P. Shukla

(Ambassador to GATT during the Uruguay Round)

Session I

10:30 am – 11:30 am

Biodiversity Related IPR Laws

Chair : Prof. Pushpa Bhargava

(Recipient of Padma Bhushan & Founder of

Centre for Cellular & Molecular Biology)

Dr. Vandana Shiva

(Recipient of Right Livelihood Award & Founder Director of Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology)

Magda Aelvoet

(Former Health & Environment Minister of Beligium and was President of the Green Group in the European Parliament)

Eric Gall

(Political Advisor to Greenpeace Europe)

TEA

11:30 am – 12:00 pm

Session II

12:00 pm – 01:00 pm

Patent Law Amendments in

India

Chair : Dinesh Abrol

(Scientist, NISTADS & AIPSN)

B.K. Keayla

(Founder Convenor of the National Working Group on Patent Law)

Dr. Mira Shiva

(Coordinator – All India Drug Action Network, Heath Action Network Asia Pacific and Peoples Health Network)

Mr. G.R. Pillai

(Additional Secretary, Ministry of Commerce)

LUNCH

01:00 pm – 02:00 pm

Session III

02:00 pm – 03:00 pm

Law of the Seed

Chair : Dr. Vandana Shiva

Benedikt Haerlin

(Coordinator Save our Seeds Campaign and Founder of Gen-ethic Network of Germany )

Patrick Mulvany

(Senior Policy Adviser to Intermediate Technology Development Group)

TEA BREAK

03:00 pm – 03:30 pm

Session IV

03:30 pm – 0500 pm

Law of the Seed cont…

Interventions by farm

organizations and farmer

representatives

Chair : Kishan Bir Choudhary

(Executive Chairman, Bharat Krishak Samaj)

Representatives of -

Bharat Krishak Sangh

Bhartiya Kisan Union

Akhil Bharatiya Khet Majdoor Union

All India Kisan Sabha

Gopal Iyer, Punjab

Debal Deb, West Bengal

Ashok Kr. Panigrahi, Orissa

Nalini Kant, Jharkhand

Gurmukh Singh, Rajasthan

Nagarik Sewa Trust, Karnataka

10:00 am – 10:30 am

Keynote Address on

Biodiversity and Intellectual

Property Rights

Prof.(Dr. )N.R. Madhava Menon

(Director, National Judicial

Academy, Bhopal )

Session V

10:30 am – 11:30 am

The Neem Victory and

Biopiracy

Chair : Magda Aelvoet

Dr. Vandana Shiva

Prof. Fritz Dolder

(Prof. of Intellectual Property with the Faculty of Law at the University of Basel , Switzerland )

Linda Bullard

(Former President of International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements )

Eric Gall

TEA

11:30 am – 12:00 pm

Session VI

12:00 pm – 01:30 pm

Protection of Traditional

Knowledge and Biodiversity

Chair : Dr. V.N. Pandey

(Former Director, Indian System of Medicine)

Sue Edwards

(Director, Institute of Sustainable Development, Ethiopia)

Dr. Dinesh Katoch

(Ayurvedic Physician)

Dr. Surinder Katoch

(Ayurvedic Physician, Yoga Expert and a Holistic Health Consultant)

Smt. Bhawarda Bhai

(Director, Jagaran Jan Vikas Samiti and Convenor of Traditional Healers of India)

LUNCH

01:30 pm – 02:30 pm

Session VII

02:30 pm – 03:30 pm

State of International

Negotiations in WIPO, WTO

Chair : Dr. Ashok Parthasarathy

(Prof. at Jawaharlal Nehru University and is on the board of South Centre)

Julia Maria

(Staff Attorney at the Centre of International Environmental Law)

Elpidio Ping

( Third World Network)

Dr. Vandana Agarwal

(Ministry of Commerce)

TEA

03:30 pm – 04:00 pm

Concluding Session

04:00 – 05:00 pm

The Road Map to IPR Reform

Leaders from Political Parties, Trade Unions and Farmers Organisations and International Participants

Chair : Mr. S.P. Shukla