This Article examines the history of TRIPS and the factors that account for its modern existence and pervasiveness. In …

differ from those articulated under the TRIPS Agreement, particularly in the focus of due process and compensation …

This article analyzes making rules in the WTO in special reference to Article 6 of the TRIPS Agreement. The Uruguay … TRIPS Agreement as an open texture so that both of these competing concepts could be legitimized. Consequently, the nature … of Article 6 of the TRIPS Agreement has become extremely complex leading to disharmonious legal regimes and practices at …

Recently, scholars and commentators around the world have reexamined the role intellectual property rights (IPRs) play … has played in the United States and its contrasting role in the world community, as evidenced by the international … intellectual property treaty (TRIPS). Though the traditional role of U.S. intellectual property policy was to advance the public …

Designed to respond to concerns about the negative impact of the TRIPS Agreement on access to medicines, the … Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health (Doha Declaration), adopted at the Doha Ministerial Conference, explicitly … clarified for the first time what flexibilities inherent in the TRIPS Agreement can be used by WTO Members to combat a public …

how WTO Member States may invoke Article 73 (“Security Exceptions”) of the TRIPS Agreement as the legal basis for …

This paper studies the effect of strengthening intellectual property rights (IPRs) after the signing of the TRIPS on …