Global Trade and IP Archives

All posts under: Global Trade and IP

Developments in global trade, IP and the developing world.

World AIDS Day, Public Health and IP

1 Dec, 2014 Tracy Ayodele "Social Innovation", AIDS, Compulsory licensing, Emerging Nations, Featured, generic medicines, Global Trade and IP, Intellectual Property Rights, International Treaties and Obligations, Licensing, Medicine, TRIPs, Uncategorized, WIPO, WTO 0

W O R L D A I D S D A Y World AIDS Day, initially held in 1988 and recognized on the 1st day of December each year, is the first …

TRIPS-Y! A Word Cloud to Think About

19 Sep, 2014 Mekhala Chaubal Global Trade and IP, Intellectual Property Rights, International Treaties and Obligations, IP education, IPR enforcement, TRIPs, Word Cloud, WTO 0

Of course it was only a matter of time until we took the text of the most famous free-trade agreement in the world, the World Trade Organisation (WTO)-administered Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) and …

Cloudy Mondays: The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement’s Word Cloud Avatar

3 Dec, 2013 Mekhala Chaubal Censorship, Global Trade and IP, International Treaties and Obligations, Trademarks, Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, Uncategorized, WTO 0

When Wikileaks well, err, wikileaked the intellectual property rights chapter on November 13, 2013 from that most secretive of mammoths, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement, plenty was said about the content of the chapter, …

So, Russia Joins the WTO. But Is It Ready To Fall in Line with TRIPS?

23 Aug, 2012 Mekhala Chaubal Corruption, Featured, Global Trade and IP, IPR enforcement, Russia, TRIPs, WTO 0

There was much hullaballoo on international media outlets today, with the formal accession of Russia into the World Trade Organization (WTO). It was the end of a 19-year long negotiation and wrangling process, and by joining …

Enter the Dragon: Navigating China’s IP Regime is About Understanding, Not Outwitting It

22 Aug, 2012 Mekhala Chaubal China, Featured, Global Trade and IP, Intellectual Property Rights, IPR enforcement, Lockean Justification of IP, Theories of Intellectual Property 0

In spite of China’s recent attempts to clean up its image as the protector of intellectual property rights (IPRs), and not the propagator of its violations, it still seems to have a long way …