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Willingness and ability to use TRIPs flexibilities: Kenya case study
Department for International Development Health Systems Resource Centre, 2004This 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.DocumentBreaking the WTO logjam: towards enforceable special and differential treatment
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002Should developing countries adopt the same trade rules as developed states – or should they be given Special and Differential Treatment (SDT)? Are existing SDT mechanisms out of synchronisation with emerging rules of trade policy? How can researchers assist the incorporation of achievable SDT regimes within the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) rule-making process?DocumentIntellectual property rights: food for the rich but poison for the poor?
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003Can 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?DocumentIntellectual property rights: developments since the fourth WTO Ministerial Conference
International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, 2003This 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.DocumentWTO ministerial declaration on the TRIPs agreement and public health: the issues at stake
European Commission, Directorate General for Trade, 2001Note 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 claDocumentRegulatory standards in the WTO: comparing intellectual property rights with competition policy, environmental protection, and core labor standards
Institute for International Economics, USA, 2000Paper 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.DocumentTRIPS versus CBD: Conflicts between the WTO regime of intellectual property rights and sustainable biodiversity management
GRAIN, 1998The 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.DocumentWTO patent rules and access to medicines: the pressure mounts
Oxfam, 2001Oxfam 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.DocumentPeople, plants, and patents: the impact of intellectual property on trade, plant biodiversity, and rural society
International Development Research Centre, 1994The purpose of this book is to identify key IPR issues and choices and to describe the broader context within which decisions are being made.DocumentThe sustainable development effects of the WTO TRIPS Agreement: a focus on developing countries
Trade, Investment and Sustainable Development Programme, IISD, 1996Examines the WTO Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) and tries to analyse those areas in which the Agreement will impact, either positively or negatively, on sustainable development in developing countries such as Pakistan.Pages
