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The Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health was adopted by the WTO Ministerial Conference of 2001 in Doha on November 14, 2001. It reaffirmed flexibility of TRIPS (trade-related aspects of intellectual property rights) member states in circumventing patent rights for better access to essential medicines.
The Doha Declaration on Public Health sought to alleviate developing country dissatisfaction with aspects of the TRIPS regime. It delayed the implementation of patent system provisions for pharmaceutical products for least developed countries (LDCs) until 2016. The declaration committed member states to interpret and implement the agreement to ...
In 2001, developing countries, concerned that developed countries were insisting on an overly narrow reading of TRIPS, initiated a round of talks that resulted in the Doha Declaration. The Doha declaration is a WTO statement that clarifies the scope of TRIPS, stating for example that TRIPS can and should be interpreted in light of the goal "to ...
Doha conference can refer to several meetings held in Doha, Qatar: The WTO Ministerial Conference of 2001. leading to the Doha Development Round; and the Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health; 2008 follow-up conference to the Monterrey Consensus; Doha Agreement (2008) between rival Lebanese factions; Hamas–Fatah Doha ...
The Doha Development Round or Doha Development Agenda (DDA) is the trade-negotiation round of the World Trade Organization (WTO) which commenced in November 2001 under then director-general Mike Moore. Its objective was to lower trade barriers around the world, and thus increase global trade.
The ministerial conference was held in Cancún, Mexico, aiming at forging agreement on the Doha round.An alliance of 22 southern states, the G20 (led by India, China [2] and Brazil), resisted demands from the North for agreements on the so-called "Singapore issues" and called for an end to agricultural subsidies within the EU and the US.
Trying to alleviate worldwide divide in accessibility of medical resources, members from the WTO endorsed the Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health in 2001. The basics of this Declaration is that "the TRIPS Agreement does not and should not prevent Members from taking measures to protect public health". [4]
However, despite not being mentioned as an exception in paragraphs 2 and 3 of Article 27 TRIPs, 'pure software' is not considered an invention under European law. [1] The decision of the contracting states of the TRIPS Agreement, i.e. the WTO member states, was that patents should be granted in all fields of technology, without discrimination ...