The purpose of Intellectual Property (IP) is not merely to create monopolies but also to ensure dissemination of knowledge and information. To attain this social end IP regimes has built in mechanisms one of which is the doctrine of exhaustion. Exhaustions of IP rights is a situation where the...

The paper looks into how TRIPS regime has treated health and what are the flexibilities available to ensure adequate health care products. The paper further goes on to analyse how the RCEP, which is under negotiation, is undermining the freedoms given under TRIPS and how it might effect India