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Pharma patents and Article 31bis: where are we now?

By Johanna Gibson, David Pearce, Jeremy Phillips and Ilanah Simon.

With so many major changes and developments occurring on his very doorstep, the IPKat has rather taken his eye off activities at global level. For example, in August 2003, when this blog was just 10 weeks old, the World Trade Organization (WTO) passed a decision on the Implementation of Paragraph 6 of the Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health. This decision called for the establishment of a dedicated page on the WTO website, to make publicly available certain notifications relating to the manufacture and sale of patented drugs for the benefit of some of the world's poorest countries.

Full post as published by IPKat on August 16, 2009 (boomark / email).