tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post3438195844006012081..comments2024-03-28T09:05:22.006+00:00Comments on The IPKat: Book Reviews: Future Reviews and The Making of the TRIPS agreementVerónica RodrÃguez Arguijohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05763207846940036921noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-90912357285283482802015-12-07T20:05:26.586+00:002015-12-07T20:05:26.586+00:00No, TRIPS was essentially a side agreement to a mu...No, TRIPS was essentially a side agreement to a multilateral free trade agreement, ensuring that the free passage of goods and services should not be encumbered by border controls and restrictions based on massive differences in IP protection and enforcement. If you ignore that basic fact, you will never be able to see TRIPS in its context. It may not be an ideal agreement, but if you don't understand the whole you'll never get the details, either. And given the huge amount of critical literature from the academic establishment it is actually quite refreshing that the negotiators and members of the secretariat finally get to tell their side of the story.Hannibalnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-42805310675641082772015-12-07T12:42:10.380+00:002015-12-07T12:42:10.380+00:00TRIPS was essentially an agreement between the dev...TRIPS was essentially an agreement between the developed world and developing world, where the developed world would be allowed patents in developing world territories and means to enforce them (to the detriment of local R&D) and in turn there would be technology transfer to the developing world. This second part has not happened and that is the real failure of TRIPS. Tech transfernoreply@blogger.com