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The TRIPS Agreement, Access to Medicines and the WTO Doha Ministerial Conference


Quaker United Nations Office – Geneva Contents

I. Background

II. The Present Availability of Off-Patent Medicines and the End of the Transition Periods

III. Compulsory Licensing

IV. Parallel Importation

V. Exceptions to Rights Conferred

VI. TRIPS Article 7

VII. General Public Health Flexibility and Technology Transfer

VIII. Granting of Patents

IX. Trademarks and Copyrights

X. Data Protection

XI. Emergence of the HIV/AIDS pandemic

XII. Declaration, Interpretation and Amendment