@article{25768,
      recid = {25768},
      author = {Malbon, Justin., and C. Arup,},
      title = {Interpreting and Implementing the TRIPS Agreement : Is it  Fair?},
      pages = {200 pages ;},
      abstract = {This book considers whether the WTO agreement on  ‘Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights’  (TRIPS) will become a vehicle for promoting greater  international equity and engagement with the world economy  or a tool for wealthy nations to extract excessive rents  from poorer countries. Can TRIPS garner the necessary  degree of legitimacy and public trust to deliver economic  development? Can it become a key instrument for promoting  international health and development? In response to these  questions, the book proposes interpretive possibilities for  the TRIPS’ text along with implementation strategies to  avoid the threat of its irrelevancy due, amongst other  things, to free trade agreements containing TRIPS-plus  terms.  The book discusses the impact of TRIPS from various  perspectives, including those of developing countries. It  will be of interest to informed citizens, members of NGOs  and students and academics concerned with the debate about  the impact of TRIPS on access to medicines at affordable  prices, the protection of traditional knowledge, and the  alleged neo-colonial effect of net revenue outflows from  developing nations to developed nations for copyright and  patent royalties.},
      url = {http://tind.wipo.int/record/25768},
}