IPRIA Seminar Series
The World Trade Organization's Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property (TRIPS) Agreement and Access to Medicines
A free public seminar in Melbourne proudly presented by IPRIA in association with the Institute for International Law and the Humanities (IILaH).
The WTO’s Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) attempts to strike a balance between the long term social objective of providing incentives for future inventions and creation, and the short term objective of allowing people to use existing inventions and creations. The TRIPS Agreement provides flexibility for governments to fine tune the protection granted in order to meet social goals. For patents, it allows governments to make exceptions to patent holders’ rights such as in national emergencies, anti-competitive practices, or if the right-holder does not supply the invention, provided certain conditions are fulfilled. For pharmaceutical patents, the flexibility has been clarified and enhanced by the 2001 Doha Declaration on TRIPS and Public Health. The enhancement was put into practice in 2003 with a decision enabling countries that cannot make medicines themselves, to import pharmaceuticals made under compulsory licence. In 2005, members agreed to make this decision a permanent amendment to the TRIPS Agreement, which will take effect when two thirds of members accept it. In this presentation Ms Watal will explore the issue of pharmaceutical patents, the 2001 Doha Declaration on TRIPS and Public Health and the issue of compulsory licences for export.
PRESENTER:
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Jayashree Watal is currently Counsellor in the Intellectual Property Division of the World Trade Organiszation. She also holds the position of Adjunct Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Centre, United States. She has researched and published articles on issues related to intellectual property rights, including the book Intellectual Property Rights in the WTO and Developing Countries. |
DATE: Thursday 21 April 2011, 6pm - 7pm (Refreshments from 5:30pm)
VENUE: Room 920, Level 9, Melbourne Law School, 185 Pelham Street CARLTON
COST: Free of charge
Continuing Professional Development
Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys
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SEMINAR CONTACT: Vesna Stefanovski, IILaH, Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne, VIC 3010
Telephone: (03) 8344 6589
Email: vesnas@unimelb.edu.au