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Many developing countries have introduced laws protecting IPR, but in practice protection is often weak.
Education and research Alan Story, a specialist in IPR at the University of Kent, in Britain, reckons that copyright, particularly as it pertains to education and research, will be the next big battleground.
All but the poorest members of the World Trade Organisation have until 2006 to implement TRIPS, an international treaty setting out minimum standards for IPR and for enforcement.
The commission identifies several ways in which rich countries could open their domestic IPR systems, including discounted fees and subsidised technical assistance.
This asserted the primacy of public health over IPR.
Instead, a few developing countries, such as India and Brazil, are starting to flex their muscles when it comes to the battle between western standards of IPR protection and matters of public interest, such as health and farming.
It also suggests a few ways that they can make the most of this flexibility in a number of important areas: Drugs Much of the recent debate over the impact of IPR on the poor has centred on the issue of access to expensive medicines.
- - - - - - - - - - HOPE FOR THE FUTURE - - - - - - - - - - 6. (C) Despite reaction to the 301 Report, Mazza says he is primed to begin a new IPR push.
The lack of effective IPR protection, import-substitution policies, standards discriminate against foreign products and create obstacles to licensing of technology, and central and provincial/local government incentives to "buy local," additionally skew the playing field against foreign firms.
