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  IPRs and development concerns in South Asia

  South Asia Watch on Trade, Economics & Environment, 2007

  The recent strengthening of the Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) regime has important implications for South Asian countries and presents various challenges.
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  Patents, compulsory license and access to medicines: some recent experiences

  Third World Network, 2007

  Patents can affect the access of patients (especially the poor) to medicines. The Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) also affects the space available to developing country Members of WTO to formulate the drug patent policies of their choice.
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  A case study to show how TRIPS-plus intellectual property rules affect access to medicines

  Community Health Cell, Society for Community Health Awareness, Research and Action, 2007

  This document contains 3 separate papers dealing with the issue of “data exclusivity”, a term that refers to new “TRIPS-plus” measures that some governments, especially the US, are seeking to include in bilateral and regional trade agreements.
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  Maintaining policy space for development: a case study on IP technical assistance in FTAs

  International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, 2007

  This paper reviews the importance of free-trade agreements (FTAs) on intellectual property (IP). Some of the findings highlighted by the author include: 
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  Malaysia’s experience in increasing access to antiretroviral drugs: exercising the ‘government use’ option

  Third World Network, 2006

  Currently the Malaysian government has a policy that encourages domestic manufacturing of non-patented antiretroviral drugs. This paper argues that the case of Malaysia illustrates that access to affordable antiretroviral drugs can become a reality when
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  Gender dimensions of intellectual property and traditional medical knowledge

  United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Regional Centre in Colombo, 2007

  This paper examines the discussion on intellectual property rights (IP) for traditional knowledge (TK) in medicine from a gender perspective. It argues that a gender analysis of these issues adds to the understanding of how trade decisions can have important and unintended impacts on the lives of disempowered people.
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  Policy space: are WTO rules preventing development?

  Overseas Development Institute, 2007

  This briefing paper examines how existing and proposed trade rules under the World Trade Organization (WTO) effect national policies in developing countries.
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  The ability of select Sub-Saharan African Countries to utilise TRIPs flexibilities and competition law to ensure a sustainable supply of essential medicines: a study of producing and importing countries

  Trade Law Centre for Southern Africa, 2006

  This paper examines the implementation of the WTO Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs) flexibilities related to access to essential medicines. The report specifically looks at three countries: Kenya, Zambia and South Africa.
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  Explaining compliance with Intellectual Property commitments: the case of Agrobiodiversity

  Fridtjof Nansen Institute, 2006

  Through the World Trade Organisation (WTO) Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS), all member states are obliged to set up systems of intellectual property rights for plant varieties.
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  The impact of free trade agreements on intellectual property standards in a post-TRIPS world

  Bilaterals.org, 2006

  This discussion paper seeks to determine the impact that bilateral free trade agreements (FTAs) have both internationally and domestically on intellectual property regimes. In particular the paper looks at the impact this will have in countries that are net- importers of products related to IPR.

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