Rights ('TRIPS') allow developing countries to determine their own national health policies and access essential … pharmaceuticals. While political attention currently focuses on compulsory licensing under TRIPS, this article examines the article 27 …(2) of TRIPS, which allows members to exclude inventions from patentability if certain criteria are met. The article argues …

the implications of imitating India’s using TRIPS flexibilities for public health policy … with article 7, 8, 27, and 30 of the TRIPS Agreement. In addition, the potential conflicts and reconciliation between … article 8 of the TRIPS Agreement and article 5(A)(2) of the Paris Convention are explored. This thesis observes that article …

Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health. This Decision provides flexibility for the export of pharmaceutical products … under compulsory license (which flexibility might otherwise have been limited by the terms of the TRIPS Agreement). This … flexibility of developing (and developed) countries under the WTO TRIPS Agreement, Doha Declaration and Decision. This article …