Proposal for Treaty of Access to Knowledge (May 10, 2005 Draft)

The following is the text that was prepared in 2005 as a
possible basis for a treaty on Access to Knowledge. The text
was prepared in response to an August 2004 proposal by Argentina
and Brazil for a WIPO Development Agenda, that included in its
original proposal, a possible treaty on access to knowledge. The
process that created this specific draft text included three
elements.

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Border & Customs Regulations

Section IV of Part III of the TRIPS Agreement impose certain obligations to WTO Member States relating to border measures that may require custom authorities interventions in cases of importation of infringing goods. However, as the rest of Part III it also allows considerable flexibility to WTO Members States in implementing its obligations.

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TRIPS Provisions on Enforcement

Written by Judit Rius Sanjuan

The most important international intellectual property agreement regulating remedies for intellectual property infringement is the 1994 WTO Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (the TRIPS Agreement). 

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Pharmaceutical Counterfeiting

What Are Counterfeit Medicines?

The definition of a counterfeit medicine is not well established.  In 1992, the WHO defined a counterfeit medicine as: “a medicine which is deliberately and fraudulently mislabelled with respect to identity and/or source."  Under this definition, it is the deliberate mislabeling of a drug or medicine which makes it a counterfeit.  The US FDA uses a similar definition,

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Program and Agenda, Roundtable on Prizes

Written by James Love
Wednesday, 07 January 2009

 Program and Agenda

(Draft 7Jan09)

Roundtable on De-linking R&D Incentives from Prices

Designing Innovation Inducement Prizes for Diagnostics, New Drugs and Vaccines for Type II and III diseases and conditions, with a particular focus on TB and Chagas Disease

 

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