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  TRIPS agreement and access to drugs in developing countries

  Sur - International Journal on Human Rights, 2005

  This article examines the progress made in the process to lend more flexibility to the TRIPS Agreement for medical drugs, and shows how the Doha Declaration and the 2003 Decision of the TRIPS Board on the implementation of its paragraph 6 are insufficient to ensure a reduction in prices and the negotiation of voluntary licenses.The paper argues that:the implementation of the Decision on
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  The international copyright system: limitations, exceptions and public interest considerations for developing countries in the digital environment

  IPRsonline.org, 2005

  This paper discusses the limitations and exceptions that exist within the international copyright system as they relate to developing countries' access to creative works.
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  Developing country coordination in international intellectual property standard-setting

  South Centre, 2005

  This paper focuses on developing country co-ordination in international intellectual property (IP) standard-setting. While international rule-making on IP is becoming more complex and diversified, developing countries, with their limited resources and expertise in the field of IP, are not well prepared to face the challenges and suffer from a lack of coordination amongst each other.
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  Willingness and ability to use TRIPs flexibilities: Kenya case study

  Department for International Development Health Systems Resource Centre, 2004

  This paper, produced by the HSRC, examines legislation and policy in light of recent developments in the international intellectual property rights framework, focusing on Kenya as a case study. It examines existing supply sources and associated trends in the pricing of medicine and the existing legal structure and flexibilities.
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  Intellectual property rights: food for the rich but poison for the poor?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  Can rules concerning intellectual property rights (IPRs) benefit developing countries and reduce poverty? How should IPR rules and regimes cover access to genetic resources? Are the costs involved in patent litigation a necessary price to pay for the incentives offered by the patent system?
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  Intellectual property rights: developments since the fourth WTO Ministerial Conference

  International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, 2003

  This February 2003 update to the Doha Round Briefing Series provides commentary on the state of play with regard to the various Doha mandates related to IPRs. The short briefing summarises the issues involved, documents the proposed solutions and notes what agreement, if any, has been reached. The mandates covered includeTRIPS and Public Health.
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  WTO ministerial declaration on the TRIPs agreement and public health: the issues at stake

  European Commission, Directorate General for Trade, 2001

  Note which sets out the Trade Directorate General's (DG III) position on the agreement on TRIPS and access to essential medecines agreed at the Doha WTO MinisterialThe paper is set out in a question and answer format which addressed the following:What is the major value of this Declaration?Why was it necessary to clarify the relationship between TRIPs and public health?What cla
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  Regulatory standards in the WTO: comparing intellectual property rights with competition policy, environmental protection, and core labor standards

  Institute for International Economics, USA, 2000

  Paper addresses the question of whether regulatory and process standards, including competition policy, environmental standards, and worker rights, should be placed onto the WTO agenda. Because they evidently no longer may be excluded on the grounds of the inability of the trading system to discipline process standards, the argument must proceed on other grounds.
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  TRIPS versus CBD: Conflicts between the WTO regime of intellectual property rights and sustainable biodiversity management

  GRAIN, 1998

  The Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs) Agreement of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) threatens to make the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) impossible to implement. Yet as an international commitment, the CBD is as legally binding and authoritative as TRIPs. Well over 130 countries adhere to both treaties.
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  WTO patent rules and access to medicines: the pressure mounts

  Oxfam, 2001

  Oxfam is calling for TRIPS to be reformed so that developing country governments have the unambiguous right to obtain the cheapest possible life-saving medicines without facing the threats of legal challenges or trade sanctions experienced by South Africa and Brazil.

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