Michael Blakeney is Herchel Smith Professor of Intellectual Property Law at Queen Mary, University of London and Director of the Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute. He has held academic positions at a number of Universities in Australia and the UK and formerly worked in the Asia Pacific Bureau of the World Intellectual Property Organization. His consultancy work has been in the fields off access to generic resources and biotechnological patenting. He has had advised the FAO, and the international agricultural research centres of the Consulting Group for International Agricultu...