Carlos Correa

Bio

Academic Background

  • Lawyer and economist. PHD of the University of Buenos Aires.

Areas of Expertise

  • Investment

  • Development and Technology Transfer

  • Intellectual Property

  • Competition Policy Law

Present Position (s)

  • Director of the Master Program on Science and Technology Policy and Management of the University of Buenos Aires

  • Director of the Post-graduate Course on Intellectual Property of the University of Buenos Aires

  • Director of the quarterly Journal “Temas de Derecho Industrial y de la Competencia”, Buenos Aires.

  • Consultant to UNCTAD, UNIDO, WHO, FAO, Inter-American Development Bank, INTAL, World Bank, SELA, ECLA, UNDP and other regional and international organizations in the field of science and technology and intellectual property.

  • Advisor (in different periods) of the governments of Canada, Spain, Ecuador, Guatemala, Dominican Republic, Uruguay, Jordan, South Africa, Indonesia. Consultant to the Rockefeller Foundation (USA) and DFID (UK) (2000)

  • Visiting Professor in post-graduate courses of the Universidad Carlos III (Madrid, Spain), Tulane University (New Orleans, USA), Universidad del Externado (Colombia), UNAM (Mexico), Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería (Peru), and of the National Universities del Litoral (Santa Fe), Mar del Plata, Córdoba, Resistencia, La Plata and Entre Ríos (Argentina).

  • Undersecretary of State for Informatics and Development in the Argentine national government (1984‑1989).

  • Coordinator of the Interministerial Group on Intellectual Property of the Argentine Government (1987‑1989).

  • Director of the UNDP/UNIDO Regional Programme on Informatics and Microelectronics for Latin America and the Caribbean (1990-1995)

Previous Position (s)

  • Legal Advisor. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Industrial (Registro Nacional de Transferencia de Tecnología) (1972-1976)

  • Consultant. DB-ECLAC program on Science and Technology for Latin America, (1975-1976)

  • Consultant. UNCTAD, Geneva (Severalperiods of time since 1977) for Technology and Intellectual Property issues

  • Consultant. UNIDO, Vienna (Severalperiods of time,1979-1996)

  • Consultant. Centro Internacional de Empresas Públicas en Países en Desarrollo, IPCE (Ljublana). For several periods of time since 1979

  • Consultant. Ministerio de Sanidad y Consumo de España, 1983

  • Consultant. United Nations Center of Transnational Corporations, New York (Severalperiods of time between 1984 and 1994), en materia de inversiones extranjeras y propiedad intelectual

  • Vice-president.  Asociación Argentina para el Desarrollo Tecnológico, ADEST, Buenos Aires, 1988-1994

  • Sub-secretary of Systems and Development.  Secretaría de Ciencia y Técnica de la Nación (1984-1988)

  • Advisor. Secretaria de Ciencia y Técnica de la Nación. 

  • Coordinator,  Inter-Ministerial Group on Intellectual Property.   Secretaría de Ciencia y Técnica de la Nación(1983; 1988-1989)

  • Director.  Regional Program, PNUD/ONUDI for Latin America. Microelectronics e Informatics (1989-1990)

  • Consultant. Instituto de Comercio Exterior (Venezuela) for GATT negotiations in Intelectual Property issues (1991)

  • Consultant.  Junta del Acuerdo de Cartagena. Andean regime, Intelectual Property issues  (1991, 2001)

  • Consultant.  Secretaría de Integración Centroamericana (SIECA) (1992)

  • Consultant.  Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA) (1993)

  • Consultant. FAO (Severalperiods of time between 1994 and 2000)

  • Consultant.  Secretaría de la Convención de Diversidad Biológica (1995)

  • Consultant. Sistema Económico Latinoamericano (SELA) (1995 y 1996)

  • Consultant.  CONICYT, IDB proyect (Uruguay) (1996)

  • Consultant.  ALADI (Montevideo) Intelectual Property Issues (1998)

  • Consultant. Privatization proces of Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales (YPF)

  • Director.  Revista del Derecho Industrial (Ed. Depalma, Buenos Aires, 1990-1994)

  • Director.  Revista cuatrimestral "Temas de Derecho Industrial y de la Competencia" (Buenos Aires)

  • Cosnultant . UNCTAD's Delegate. Intelectual Property Issues for GATT's Uruguay Round and OMPI (1988-1989)

  • Consultant. World Hewalth Organization (Several periods of time since 1999) y de la Secretaría de la Convención de Diversidad Biológica (1998).

Other Activities and Memberships

  • Member of  Latin American Trade Network

  • Member of the International Commission on Intellectual Property Rights created by United Kingdom Government (2001)

  • Member of the Scientific Resource Group on Globalization of the World Health Organization (since 2000).

  • Member of the International Economics Law Association, Brussels (since 1989)

  • Member of the Association on Teaching and Research on Intellectual Property (ATRIP), Munich

  • Member of the “Steering Committee” of the project “Genetic Resources Policy Issues”, ESDAR/World Bank (1998-2000)

Recent Publications

Books

  • Regímenes de control de la transferencia de tecnología América Latina, Instituto para la Integración de América Latina, (INTAL), 1st Ediction, Buenos Aires, 1979; Banco Central de Ecuador, Serie Monografías, N1 5, (Second Ediction), Quito-1980

  • Compras estatales e integración económica, (with G. Ondarts), BID-INTAL, Buenos Aires, January 1983 (p.73 a 264)

  • La consultoría en los países de la ALADI (with collaboration), INTAL, Buenos Aires, 1984 (p. 21 to 45 y 113 to 247)

  • Regulación de la inversión extranjera en América Latina y en el Caribe, (in colaboration), INTAL, Buenos Aires, 1984 (p. 1 to 87)

  • "The use and promotion of consultancy joint-ventures by public entities in Latin America," International Center for Public Enterprises in Developing Countries (ICPE), Ljubljana, 1985

  • Derecho Informático (with collaboration),  Depalma Ed., Buenos Aires, 1987

  • "Políticas de informática: opciones para los países en desarrollo". In Papeles de Murcia, CREI, 1988

  • Tecnología y desarrollo de la informática en el contexto Norte-Sur, Eudeba Ed. , Buenos Aires, 1989

  • Producción y comercio de software en América Latina, Zagier & Urruty Ed. , Buenos Aires, 1993

  • Intellectual property and foreign direct investments, United Nations, New York, 1993

  • People, plants and patents. The impact of intellectual property on trade, plant biodiversity, and rural society, IDRC, Ottawa, 1994 (with Bengston, Berhan, Childers, Ginés and others)

  • Biotecnología: innovación y producción en América Latina. Universidad empresa. Propiedad Intelectual. Bioseguridad, CEA CBC, Buenos Aires, 1996, with collaboration

  • Patentes y competencia, ubinzal Culzoni Ed. R, Santa Fe (with S. Bergel), Santa Fe, 1996

  • EL Acuerdo TRIPs: nuevas reglas internacionales sobre propiedad intelectual, Ciudad Argentina, Buenos Aires, 1996

  • Derecho de patentes (Coordinator), Ciudad Argentina, Buenos Aires 1996

  • Temas de propiedad intelectual, CEA-CBC, Buenos Aires, 1997

  • South Centre, (1997), The TRIPs Agreement. A Guide for the South. The Uruguay Round Agreement on Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights, Geneva

  • Intellectual property and international trade. The Trips Agreement (Editor with A. Yusuf), Kluwer Law International, London, 1998

  • Implementing the TRIPs Agreement. General context and implications for developing countries, Third World Network, Penang, 1998

  • Intellectual property rights, the WTO and developing countries. The TRIPS Agreement and policy options, ZED-TWN, London, 2000.

  • Integrating public health concerns into patent legislation in developing countries, Geneva, South Centre, 2000

Publications in Books (since 2000)

  • “In situ conservation and intellectual property rights” (2000), Brush, Stephen (Ed.), Genes in the Field. On-Farm Conservation of Crop Diversity, IPGRI, IDRC, Lewis Publishers

  • “La infraestructura científica y tecnológica Argentina al entrar al tercer milenio”, (2000), SIMPOSIO “Ciencia, Tecnología y Empresa”, Academia Nacional de Ciencias, Córdoba

  • “Situación Global de la propiedad Intelectual, desafíos y Oportunidades”, (2000), Investigación Agrícola y Propiedad Intelectual en la América del Sur, IICA, Brasília D.F.

  • “Responsabilities and obligations of parties” (Chapter 5), en Patel, S., Roffe, P. and Yusf, A. (editores), The international transfer of technology. The origins and aftermath of the United Nations negotiations on a Draft Code of Conduct, Kluwer law International, The Hague, 2000

  • “Emerging trends: new patterns of technology transfer” (Chapter 19), en Patel, S., Roffe, P. and Yusf, A. (editors), The international transfer of technology. The origins and aftermath of the United Nations negotiations on a Draft Code of Conduct, Kluwer law International, The Hague, 2000

  • “University-enterprise linkages in the area of biotechnology”, en R. López Martínez y A. Piccaluga (ed.), Knowledge flows in national systems of innovation, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, Gran Bretaña, 2000

  • “Cuestiones éticas en el patentamiento de la biotecnología”, en Bergel, Salvador y Diaz, Alberto (Organizadores), Biotecnología y Sociedad, Ciudad Argentina, Buenos Aires, 2001

  • “Elements for the protection of farmers’ plant varieties”, en Intellectual property: trade, competition and sustainable development, T. Cottier, P. Mavroidis, M. Panizzon(editores), University of Michigan Press (en prensa)

  • “Access to Plant Genetic Resources and Intellectual Property Rights”, Drahos, Peter and Blakeney, Michael, (eds.), Perspectives on Intellectual Property. IP in Biodiversity and Agriculture, vol.9, Sweet & Maxwell and Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute (University of London), London, 2001

Articles in Magazines (since 2000)

  • “Patentes y acceso a medicamentos”, (2000), Le Monde Diplomatique, Marzo, Buenos Aires

  • “Reforming the intellectual property rights system in Latin America”, (2000), The World Economy, vol. 23, No.6.

  • “Propiedad y transferencia de resultados de investigación financiada públicamente en el MERCOSUR” (2000), Jurisprudencia Argentina, No. 6213, 27- September

  • Editor.  Special Number: “Temas actuales de la propiedad intelectual”, (2000), Jurisprudencia Argentina, No. 6213, 27 September

  • “Implementing national public health policies in the framework of the WTO Agreements” (2000), Journal of World Trade, vol. 34, No. 5, London, September

  • “Economic importance of authors rights”, Copyright Bulletin, UNESCO, vol. XXXIV, No. 2, París, 2000 (Spanish version: “La importancia económica del derecho de autor”, Boletín de Derecho de Autor, vol. XXXIV, No. 2, París, 2000

  • “Studies of legal regimes. MERCOSUR countries”, ATAS XII-The role of publicly funded research and publicly owned technologies in the transfer and diffusion of environmentally sound technologies, United Nations, New York y Ginebra, 2000

  • “Elementos para protección legal de las variedades vegetales de los agricultores”, Revista del Centro de Estudios de la Propiedad Intelectual. La Propiedad Inmaterial, Universidad Externado de Colombia, No.1, December, Bogotá, 2000

  • “The TRIPS Agreement: how much room for maneuver?”, Journal of Human Development, CARFAX Publishing, UNDP, vol.2, No.1, Nueva York, 2001

  • “Public Health and Patent Legislation in Developing Countries”, Tulane Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property, Tulane University, vol.3, New Orleans, 2001

  • “Pro-Competitive Measures under the TRIPS Agreement to Promote Technology Diffusion in Developing Countries”, The Journal of World Intellectual Property, vol.4, no.4, Geneva, 2001

  • “El régimen de patentes tras la adopción del Acuerdo sobre los Derechos de la Propiedad Intelectual Relacionados con el Comercio”, Jurisprudencia Argentina, No. 6239, Buenos Aires, 2001

  • “Pro-competitive measures under the TRIPS Agreement to promote technology diffusion in developing countries”, The Journal of World Intellectual Property, vol.4, No.4, Geneva, 2001

  • “Investigación y desarrollo en la industria farmacéutica. El caso argentino”, Revista Venezolana de Gestión Tecnológica, vol. 22, No.1, Caracas, 2001

  • "Protección de los sistemas de medicina tradicional, patentamiento y promoción de las plantas medicinales”, Revista La Propiedad Inmaterial, Universidad Externado de Colombia, No.2, Bogotá, 2001

Other Research Documents (Since 2000)

  • “Necesidad de una estrategia compartida”, Encrucijadas UBA, Revista de la Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, 2001

  • “América Latina, sin protección para sus industrias y especies”, Le Monde Diplomatique, Buenos Aires, March, 2001

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  • Protection of Data Submitted for the Registration of Pharmaceuticals, South Centre, Geneva, 2002

  • “Implications of the DOHA Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health”, Geneva, June 2002.
  • Commission on Intellectual Property Rights, Integrating intellectual property rights and development policy, London, 2002.

Current Research Projects

  • "Protección mediante propiedad intelectual de la medicina tradicional," sponsored by Rockefeller Foundation

  • Implications of Doha Ministerial Declaration in TRIPS and public Health, Sponsored by World Health Organization

  • Investments Regimes in the WTO (Book with Nagesh Kumar)

  • Joint project UBACyT : “Variedades transgénicas: aspectos legales, socio-económicos y agronómicos de su difusión en la agricultura argentina” (Schedule 1998-2000 y 2000-2002)

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Areas of Interest

  • Agreement instrumentation at the WTO level, in particular for TRIPS, TRIMS and GATS, in developing countries

  • Development of regional and multilateral disciplines for Intellectual Property, Competition Policy and Investment matters.