This article examines the leeway the TRIPS Agreement grants to WTO Members to define their own standard of … abstractly analyzing the boundaries set by Article 27 TRIPS, it takes up specific questions related to patentability raised … before national judges where the TRIPS consistency of a domestic practice or interpretation has been an issue. In this …

proposed manufacturing-for-export exception to patent protection would violate Article 28.1 of the TRIPS Agreement, with such …A recent chapter by Seuba, Genovesi, and Roffe argues that Article 30 of the TRIPS Agreement would accommodate a … “manufacturing for export exception” to patent protection. The proposed exception permits the manufacturing of goods protected by …

This paper examines the role of patent policy in the open economy. It begins by considering how the presence of patents … affects trade in patentable products. A brief review of the general argument for patent protection is followed by … consideration of the elements that comprise a patent system, and which determine "patent strength". Attention is then given to how …